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VOL. I. LOWELL, KENT COUNTY. MICH., JANUARY 6, 1894, NO, 28.

GLIARANGE SALE S SHOES Sixty Pairs, broken sizes, Ladies' Kid Shoes,

Worth $5.00, $4.50 and $3.50. Wc nill Sell This Entire Lot at the Uniform Price of

PER F - A - I R

G. A. R. JUBILEE. Old toldiers, Their ladles and

Friends Injoy Themselves.

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If we Have Your Size You are Lucky.

Pairs Ladies' Kid Button Worth | 3 . 0 0 ( ( i t ft If u

$2.00.

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Grain " " $2.00 @

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN BOYS'. MISSES

AND CHILDREN'S SHOES.

is Your Opportunity. Remember, wc Always Do Ju s t

as we Advertise

M R S . A . D. V A N O E U S E i r a BIRTHDAY.

Kent County Schools Contribute for the Mlnsrs.

WILLIAM POTTER S U F F E R S NO MORE.

Line Written in Memory of Mrs. J . J . MoNMugnton.

Geo. Winegar.

Look After Your Fences! • • *

Having Purchased of the Lin-

dendoll Fence Company the

Townships of Vergonnes,

Lowell, Bowne, Keene, Bos*

ton, A Campbell, I aft En*

•bled to Furnish njTatrons

mod All Others with the

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BEST $6.00 FENCE MACHINE EVER SOLD IN MICHIGAN.

Please Call at my Store and Examine the Superior Merits of this Machine. Respectfully vonrs.

R. B. BOYLAN Hcaiiqu:iit«TK f< r Ocuerat Hard ware.

B. C. SMITH, THE TAILOR Will Give You Fits

I F HE MAKES Y u U A SUIT OF CLOTHES.

E v e r y G a r m e n t Guaranteed .

LATEST AND BEST' STYLES, LOW PRICES.

H. NASH, Dealer in agricultural implements.

Galloway Robes, COATS AND MITTENS,

For cold weather.

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18 THE PLACE TO

Buy Groceries, Produce and Crockery OP ACL SORTS AND KINDS, POE HE IS THE

FARMER'S FRIEND Cash for everything a Farmer can raise, beg or

borrow^ Always Ready for Business.

ORAND ARMY 1NSTAI.LATION'.

It was n merry company that packed the G. A. R. hull Wednesday evening. There were the grizzled old veterans of the war with their goodly wive«, all a little worse lor wear, but

still young in heart and yet in the ring. Then there were the Sons and dntighters of veteranr with many fHends, down to the wee toddlew, of whoso voicca a pioneer California preacher once said: "Stay Madam, Chat's the sweetest music ever heard in San Francisco."

After the InstallstioB ceremonies of the Grand Army and Women's Relief Corps, the ladies, some young and romo older, spread a svbstantial feast on tables reaching from end to end of t^e hall, while a jolly company of

"youngstere" enlivened the occasion by singing the grand old War songs that have moved the people so deeply in the days gone by. Twice were the tables filled, after which came the speech-making, witbovt Which no meeting is complete.

We oaa bnfeoW tdbsenthaents ex pressed at the meeting} "MemVrs of the Grand Army of the Republic long may you live to enjoy the bless ings of peace and prosperity in the country you have served so well."

BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Thursday, December 28, being the forty-fifth birthday of Mrs. A. D. VanDeusen, a few friends were in vhed to spend the evening. After the oyster supper to which all did jns

ticc, crfrds and conversation whiled away the time till the guests, surprised at the lateness of the hour, took their leave, voting it a pleasant evening, and wishing Mrs. VanDeusen many happy returns of the day. Mr. Van

D-usen presented his wife with handsome gold watch-chain and charm in remembrance of the day.

FOR T H E MIXERS

The Kent county schools have been

making collections for the relief of the miners in the Upper Peninsula. The collectinns reported from Lowell and surrounding towns arc as follows:

Ada—District No. 1, $4; No. 8 12. Bowne-No. 1, S2; No.3,82.50. Bownc and Caledonia-No. 2, 85.25. Caledonia-No. 1,81.87; No. 5, 83;

No. 9, 82.65. Cannon—No. 1,81.10; No. 3,81.75

No. 6, 8G; No. 7, 81.40. 1 Cascade-No. 4, $1.50; No. 7,83.24; No. 8. 85; No. 10, S1.70; No. 12, 88 -

| 25. Grattan-No. 1, 813.58; No. 3, 8.1.-

30; No. 8, 82.50. Lowell-No. 4, 85.50; No. 6, 81,

No. 8, 81.25; No. 9, 49 cents; Sun-day school. 82 66; No. 12, 81.25.

Vorgennes—No. 7, 81.36 ; No. 10; 82; Fr. 4,81.75.

SUSAN I . WYMAN DEAD.

Mrs. Susan I. W^man of West Low-ell died on Tuesday, January 2, of consumption, after a

long illness, al the age of twenty-six years and six months. Funeral ser-

vices were held at the Baptist church in this village on Thursday, conducted

by Rev. J . T. Hustfd.

8 2 2 SAVED.

The L E D G E R has saved the village the sum of ^22 in the matter of pnh-ishing the council proceedings for the

enduing year. The price paid for-

merly was 840, but the L I ^ O E U asked for an opportunity to Wd for the printing, which wrts granted, t h e bids were opened at the council meet-ing Tuesday night, add were each found to be for 818. Although the

contract was awarded to the Journal, the taxpayers of the village will re-member that were it not for the LED-GER, they would continue as formerly, to pay 840 for the privilege of reading the council proceedings.

DEATH OF MRS. J . J . MCNAUGHTON.

The death of Mrs. McNaughton, brief mention of which was made in our last issue, came Ms a shock to the community in which she had resided for nearly forty si* years. Only a

short time previous to her death she had taken an active part in the Cong-regational church fair, and her co-

workers will always remember hef last hours with theTn. Mr. McNaugh-ton has ths sympathy of the commun-ity in his hoitf.

John Matthew^, father of the de-ceased, moved to this vicinity in 1838. His daughter Rebecca was born ten

years later. In 1864 she married C. F. Howk, who died about six years ago, leaving her with one son, Lew J . Howk. In December, 1891 Mrs. Howk became the wife of J . J . Mc-Naughton, who on Wedneday last was forced to part with her, by that grim

messenger which sooner or later enmes to as all. w

Nay, qUebtion not, Godf Inoweth best, We ihould not murrrfrtr when w« weep;

Her foet were weary, let her rest, Gotl giveth hit beloved sleep.

Aye, it is hard, but God is just, And well we know his way« are wise,

And some day from the dreamless dust, Our fondest hopes again will rise.

We can but trust and trusting wait, And waiting wift not be in vain ;

Some d«y we'll reid the book of fate, Afld God will make his purpose plain.

The funeral services wcra held at the residence on Friday, conducted h j Rev. Jas. Provan in the presence of a large gathering of friends.

T H E LOWELL CUTTER FACTORY.

That valuable local institution closed down for ft couple of weeks on Saturday last in order to make much needed repairs. The company has had a busy season having in the season closed turned out nearly fifteen thou-

sand cutters. They expect to resume operations on buggy work soon.

DEATH OF WM POTTER.

William Potter .lied at bis home in this village on Wednesday morning,

at the age of 77, after a lingering ill-ness, of cancer and paralysis. Fun-eral sevices were held at the residence at 10 a. m. yesterday. Rev. A. P .

Moors officiating. The remains were taken to Greenville for interment. Obituary notice next week.

J . J . McNaughton was in Grand Rapids Tuesday.

A. A. Husted left Wednesday for Vineyard, Georgia.

Mrs. E. N. Leonard spent the holi-days in Wyoming, Canada.

Roy R. Eaton returned. Monday, to his medical studies at Chicago.

L. K. Saulbury of Grand Rapids was in town a few days this week.

Miss Kate Edmonds spent New Years with Mrs. M. H. Brown at Otisco. .

Mrs. Elizabeth Mason died a t her home in Ada township on Tuesday, j The funreal took place at the church oa Wediwsday.

John Clark of Saranac Was in town ' Inst Saturday.

To remove paint—Sit down on it * before it is dry.

A man mad with whisky naturally1 ' uses intemperate language.

Chicken thieves regard a bird in ' the hand worth two in the roost.

It is much easier to organize a irust than to trust the parties who organize.- -

Cora Adams of Vergennes visited ona day thn week at Mrs. Arthur R-id's.

Mrs. Emma iiendrick of Benton 1

Harbor is visiting her parents, A. A. -Hall and Wife.

Miss Minnie Blakeslee entertainecf- 1

a fe\f of her friends Wednesday. • Progressive pedro was the amusment. •

Henry French and wife of Port Huftm were the guests of Robert Swayze and wife several days this-week.

Mrs. D. N. Goodsell and daughters Cora and Eda and Mrs. Ed Congdon ' of Smyrna visited Mrs. Wm. Rexford ' at Fallasbmrg Tuesday*

The trttendants upon the church 6lv

Christ ftf Cascade township have con-tributed 822.50 for the relief of the sufiering miners. "»

Married, in Lowell, January 2, by Rev. A. P. Moors, at the residence o f ' the bride's father, Erastus Scott, Mrs. Emma J . Scott and Frank McMana-' mon of Okemos, Mich.

William Robinson and grandson,-Albert Jones of St. Joseph, formerly residents of Lowell, visited the familV of Frank J . Fox last week and called ' on their many friends In the village.

Literary reading circles and clubs are becoming numerous among the ladies. The gentleman cannot organ-ize and maintain even one lyceum or debating club. Whist and cards ap-pear to be their best holt).

I t is reported that the Congrega-. tional choir will be reorganized under' the supervision of of J . H. Rickert,-who has been chosen chorister, an(f-will consist of R. D. Stocking, organ-ist, Miss Hattie Wlfcon, soprano, Mrs. Mate Hunt, alto, George Winegar, base and J . H. Maynard, tenor.

The Sanilac Republican charges five cents a line for publishing poetry by amateurs. We nope the Repub-lican will get all there is to publish, but we dout see why It should cut pri-ces. Fifty cents is cheap enough. —North Branch Gazette.

A young lady examining and pri-cing hosiery in one of our dry goody stores recently, finding a pair she liked asked the clerk "how high those" came." Green Clerk—"Why I don't know exactly but I think about two inches above the knee. Ton may step into the back room and try them-on if you like." That clerk is now in5

another department.—Cam Democrat.-The annual neeting of the Congre-

gational society was held last Wednes-day nighi and re eleted Francis King and Frank T. King trustees. The an-nual meeting of the Congregational church was also held the same even-ing. Mrs. O. R. Eaton was re-elected clerk, Francis King treasurer and J . H. Rickert chorister. The election of a Sunday school superintendent w a r deferred to some future time.

Mrs. A. O. Heydlauff and daughter spent a few days in Grand Rapids this week.

At the regular review December 27, Lowell Hive, 324 L. O. T. M. elected the following officers for 1894; Past L. C., Mrs. Agnes E. Parks L. C., Mrs. Jane A. VanDeusen; Lieut. L. C., Mrs. E. Faulkner; F. K., Mrs. Maggie Rcutelstsrz; R. R., Mrs. Bessie Swayze; Serg., Mrs. Lou-isa Hazletoh; M. A.. Mrs. Delia Buckley ; Chap., Mrs. Hattie Speaker; Picket, Mrs. Louisa Denny; Sentinel,-M m . Kate Wilson.

Cara McFarlaa, R. K. When every man has become so thor-

oughly a creature of habit that he will buy this year just where he did last year* then it will be time to stop-advertising.

Mrs Whittaker, mother of Mrs. Grattan | Ed Webber, has returned from hei<"

I home at Ncrthville.

P E N I N S U L A R I T l i M S .

DOINGS OF THE WOLVERINES

TOLD IN BRIEF.

State IVncliom* A«*ooliiflon Convrntlan.—

Circuit Court . IIII II ;P« Confer ut LmiHlni;.

—Wimteit to bo Orti.ln He WouM Ule.

—Other Jnlereitlnjr News of the state.

Teifhern Iil*ru«» Many Mttter*. The incctioff of the Stale Trachors oif in orders.

I H r t O U U h O U T I/.ICHICAN.

•4Sr>ewairg Is to have a chair factory.

Coal prospectors are a t work in Tus-cola county.

Jennie Katn«ey, colored, rommittod suiciue a t Ivn.iuniizoo liy taking poUoa.

A thicU KIMin of coul has been (lis-covered in Uedfor.l township, Calhoun county.

Anen Duffy, of Miirletto, hod two fingers shut a way i.y the u.xpioaion of his gun

Tnc South Haven stove works have clobuil down on nocoatit of tho fal l ing

FEMININITIES.

association was held a t Lansing with about 8U) in attendance.

Prof. W. E. Cheever, of the Milwau-kee Stale Not raui school, read the presi-dent's address to the tea iters associa-tion, ami au informal reception was tendered Gov. Ri h. Dr. K. (i. Boone, principal of the State Normal s hool read a paper upon "General Culture us an Element in Professional Training." The discuss on of Dr. Itoone's able paper was led by Prof. W. (J. Sperry, of Olivet, and was participated in by several leading members of tiic asso-ciation. Prof. II. 11. Heitield, of the Chicuqo Normal Training school, read an admirable paper on "Normal Train ing," which wus discussed by U. L Kimball, of Hay City, and others.

Prof. W. .1. Ihal, of the Michigan Agricultural Co.lege, presided over a meeting devoted to college matters a t which Prof. Smith Hurnham, of Albion, read a paper on "The Place of Athlet-ics in Education," which cal ed out a discussion which continued for several hours. While the opinion was unan-imous that athletics were beneficial.

Norw i . , the upper peninsula mining town, n »vv litis n r e.e- trio l ighting plant in op<-r.i>i -n.

The Marce- us common council has pussc>l an ord n iiice prohiuiting boys cateiiing on cu>i<-i8.

The p ipers of i-^can iba are demant1-ibgof tnc city o..i -i..l-> ihut all ilisre-putable houses be ciosod.

The Ma.\ b e i jnan ies will bo oper-aleii al> wtnu-r mnif, and thus many neeily men will b«- yi\vn work.

Hillsdale oll-ge s tu l en t s have flooded ineir iiniie te grounds and will maue thorn into u S tating rinK.

John Ayers, of .Michigan City, Ind., wus instantly kil e.i iiiar Three Otiks by a .Michigan Central passenger tram.

The Mi h.gan Stale MilleiV nssoeia-tion will meet m Lans n^, January U. Ex-Gov. Luce and ex-apeaker Tateum will deliver uddte^ses.

It is icportvd tn.it operations are to be resumed a t the Ci-iuenmal mines in

vet the sentiment was equally us strong Doughton coupiy euny in lain. '1 hey that of late years football especially thina there is copper there, a f t e r all. was attended by too much brutality, j South Haven will organize a law-gambling, drunkenness and kindred and-order league for ihe purpose of vices, which should be eliminated, or closing up the numerous " ton ic jo in t s" the sport suppressed entirely.^ Dr. which now Uourish in that local option Fiske was chosen president of the col-lege section, and Ur. C. H. Gurney, of Hillsdale, was made secretary.

The work of primary schools was also under consideration. Papers were read upon reading, history, literature and nature as basis for unification of work in the primary schools. The principal speakers upon these subjects were Miss Kegina P. Henlae.of the De-troit Training school; Miss Maud Hall, of the State Normal school; Supt. J . \V. Smith, of Hay City; Miss Grace Good-rich and Miss Hose Harlow, of Detroit: Miss Lathrop, of Grand Hapids, and Miss Miller, of Saginaw. The primary

village.

There are severa". hundred counter-feit 5-ccni pieces in circulation in Hen-ton Harbor and Su Joseph, Two fel-loas were detected shoving the queer, but they escaped.

Fred Stevens' barn, four cows and all this year's crops were burned at Hirminghum. The family was absent, and the fire is supposed t" have been caused by tramps.

The Henton Harbor and St. Joseph joint committee, whi h has been ap-pointed to get the court house away

Mclion elected M l ^ Lou i^ Millurrof J ^ ' h a V e U n l U : d U , > 0 a

Saginaw, president, and Miss Margaret i B B , t e I n ^ J o s , e P u -Wise, of Ypsilanti. secretary. During a drunken quarrel a t Bagley,

Papers were read by Dr. N. E. Wads- 1 a little village in Menominee county, worth, of the Michigan Mining school; I J im McKinney shot and killed a man C. W. Hill, of Pent water, advocating the township system; Prof. Lyon, of Detroit, "Vertical Writing." lion. A. S. Draper, of Cleveland, 0 . , gave a fcplendld address upon "Teaching as a Profession."

Officers were elected as follows: President C. T. Grawn, Traverse City; vice-presidents, A. Lode man, Ypsilanti and N. W. Uichards, Greenville; secre-tary, F. R. Hathaway, Hudson; treas-urer , F. L. Evans. Jackson; executive committee, B. A. Helnsdale, Ann Arbor; Miss Florence Fox, Lansing; W. A. Ellis, Detroit; members of the pu-pils' reading circle committee, C. 0. Hoyt, Lansing, and J. W. Simmons, Owosso.

The resolutions adopted strongly in-dorsed the aggressiveness of the s tate superintendent in matters pertaining to teachers; approved the action of the college section in taking steps toward suppressing objectionable features of collegiate sports: recommended the establishment of another Normal school; extended the kindest wishes to Prof. W. 11. Cheever, the ret i r ing president, in his new field. The ex-hibit of the work of the schools of the state which were confined to kinder-garten work, language work and maps and written work on geography, was voted a success.

The county coramissioners of schools listened to addresses by President E. Andrews, of Harry and others. Ashley Clapp. of Kalamazoo, was elected presi-dent, D. M. Brown, of Big Rapids, vice

Jresident, and J . A. Cleary, of Paw Ww. secretary and treasurer.

Circuit .luftge* Orpuilxe. A well a t l fnded meeting of the

judges and judges-elect of the circuit courts of Michigan was held In the supreme court a t Lansing. A tempo-ra ry organization was effected with Judge Russell, of Hart, to whose ef-for ts the meeting is due. as chairman, and Judge Vance, of Port Huron, as secretary.

Gov. Rich spoke briefly on "Our Penal Inst l tnt ions" and papers were read as follows: "Circuit Judges and the Criminal Law,"' Justice Grant. Lansing; "Avoidable Delay in the Cir-cuit Courts of This State,"' Judge Moore, Lapeer: "The Rotation of Judges," Judge Da boll, St. Johns : "The Duties of Judges in Exparte Divorce Cases," Judge McMahon. Ludington: ••The Court and the Jury ," Judge Aid-rich, Cadillac; "Some Questions Arising Under Recent Tax Laws,'' Judge Max-well, Bay City: "Measures for the Pre-vention of Perjury."' Judge Dodds, ML Pleasan t Each of the papers were discussed more or 'ess, some of the dis-cussions being quite animated.

An organization was effected with the following officers: President, F. .1. Russell, Hart; vice-president, S. B. Da boll, S t Johns; secretary, and treas-urer , J . B. Moore, Lapeer. The asso-ciation will be known as the Associa-tion of Judges of Michigan. I t is to be composed of the supreme and cir-cuit judges and judges of municipal courts of record.

Took PoSaon, Then Hung liimM-lf. Jacob Eopp. a German of Grand Rap-

ids, was found hanging by the neck from a sha f t in the chemical works building a t Belding. His face was covered with paris green, and i t was evident t h a t he had taken a dose of this. Out of employment

by the name of Jim Palterson. McKln-ney has been arrested.

William H. Ashley, of Eckford town-ship, Caihoun county, hanged himself In his Imrn. Despondency brought about by sickness was the probable cause. He was about 45 years old.

Harriet Dennison, has commenced suit by Bumtnous against Charles Van Wormer and his bondsmen for selling her husband, an habitual drinker of Lansing, liquor. Damages claimed 810,000.

Miss Lizzie McSweeney, of Detroit, has been admitted to practice a t the Wayne county bir . She is the first of her sex to be admitted a t Detroit, and also the first female graduate of the Detroit College of Law.

While hunting, Israel Wagner, son of a farmer In Moore township, Sani-lac county, was accidentally shot in the back of the head by William Delille, his companion. Wagner died instantly. Both boys were about 15 years old.

A mall bag stolen from the Bronson depot two weeks a?o was found two miles from town. The mail was vain-able, but not a letter was touched. The only things taken were pension certificates, of which there were many in the mall.

John Peterson "got cold," so he says, in the Calumet jail and lighted a roar-ing fire from his bunk and some shav-ings. Instead of escaping, as he hoped, he was nearly suffocated and would have been a dead man had not the turnkey arrived just In time.

Now that Conductor S J O U has been acquitted a t Marshall, It is extremely doubtful if Engineer Wooley will ever be brought to trial. Certain i t is that no jury could be found in Calhoun county, if in the state, and Prosecutor Clark will probably dismiss the case.

Mike Mulvlhill, a Detroit hard char-acter, became insane from the effects of bad whisky, and af te r defying one police station ran down a well-filled street, slashing a t men, women and children with a razor and a club. He was finally downed by two ofiieers, but only gave up when choked almost insensible.

In the northern part of the state many counterfeit Columbian half dol-lars are bald to be circulating. The counterfeiters, however, owing to the fact tha i the Columbians sell for 81 each, have taken a new s tar t and build the coins of pure silver, instead of the baser metals, so that in ring and weight they are all right.

The Grand Traverse region is not suffering from commercial depression. Merchants have done E bigger business than they did last year, while post-office receipts show a marked increase. In the lumber woods men are getting from S20 to 826 a month, and there Is a brisk demand. I t is believed that 200 more men, if competent, could get work there.

Members of the boards of examining surgeons for Michigan have been ap-pointed as follows: Dr. G. R. Herkimer and Otis Moore, Nlles: C. J . Enhis and Thomas N. Rogers, Sault Ste. Marie; Samuel M. Post and John W. Pollard, S t Johns; John W. Brosnau and George W. Niliart, Kalamazoo: J . B. Martin, Traverse City, and John T. Denslow, Muskegon.

In Spain tho infant 's foco Is swept with a pine tree bough to bring good luck.

Peacock fcailiera are being sold in tho streets to mount on hauii fireplace screens

Mine. Bernhardt has taken back to Paris with hor from her South Amef-lean tour about 200 birds.

Spiders are on sale in the West In-d :a Islands Every housewife has a collection for extermlnatinir insects.

Toper—What shall I lake, doctor, to remove the redness of my nose? Doctor—Take nothing — for three months.

The correct th ing for a lady to use Is a white linen handlcorchief, hem-stitched and having a monogram In white embrol :ered in one corn r.

Mrs. Sarah Kitchen, who recently departed this l ife a t tho ago of 93, had been for seventy-four y j a r a tho s.-xton of a Lelce»t;rihlre, England, church.

She, sadly—Take back your ring. You said when we became engaged that you wore the luckio t man in the world. Ho, tak ing the ring—Now I know I am.

She—I never saw such a man! Ho never has an f money but he f r i t t e rs It awav? Ho—Aren't you then afra id of marrying him? Sho—Oh. dear, no. After he has married me he'll never have any money.

"Ah! my beloved, may I hope to clasp you to-morrow to mv bosom and depict to you airain our fu ture hapninoss In the glowing colors of phantasy?" "No. love; not to-mor-row—to-morrow is wash day . "

If vaseline or but ter be applied to the skin ImmeJlatcly a f t e r a blow of any kind there will be no discolora-tion; but to be effectual It must be used directly a f t e r the accident The bruised feeling moy bo relieved by witch hazol.

There are 6,335 women postmasters under the United States government, the largest number In any stale. 43ii, being In Pennsylvania and one In Alaska. The oldest Is Miss Martha E Stone, of North Oxford. Mass., who has held her office forty-six years.

Women have in various European cities done remarkably well as photog-raphers. In Copenhagen one woman pho togra ihe r has ior several years been favored with very f la t ter ing commissions from the court, and In St-.-kholm another counts royal ty among her patrons.

GRAINS OF COLO.

A chronic grumbler can be sot down as a person who loafs too much.

An easy chair for a discontented man is not to be found in any m a r k e t

There is not much good in the man who does not want to be good clear through.

Unless a man has a character t h a t won't show dir t he had better keep out of politics.

The man who works the hardest for the least pay is the one who has the biggest fortune.

Never tell all you know, for he who tells everything he knows of ten te l ls more than he knows.

A man's real possession is h ;s mem-ory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else Is he poor.

There are few people who can pay a just debt without act ing as if they were conferring a favor.

We could all be groat men If we could be measured by the groat things we in4 •"d to do to-morrow.

The population of London increases a t the rate of 200 souls a day.

An American living In France has succeeded in making a clock entirely of papcf, which will run two years without wearing out.

In Liverpool there a t e technical ed-ucational schools for teaching cookery, laundry work, dress cutt ing and household sowlncr a t two pence per lesson.

The observatory on the top of M t Blanc is an accomplished f a c t The foundations Imbedded In the Ice are consl lercd perfectly safe. I t will bo occupied continuously during the fine season, and self-registering Instru-ments will be le f t behind for the win-ter.

A clockwork mileage indicator for cycles has been invented by Hector Levy, Paris. I t is fitted to the steer-ing socket jus t above the f r a e, being connected by a rod with tho axle of tho front wheo'. The d 'a l is clearly marked and its position shows tho distance ridden a t a glance.

In the Sandwich islands the apple has become wild, and forests of trees of many acres are found in various par ts of the country. They extend from the cvel of the sea far up into the mountain 6id3B. It is said t h a t miles of these ap-de forests can occa-sionally bo seen One traveler gives tho extent of ono of them as between five and t -n miles In width and about twenty miles long.

An interesting question is raised in Paris bv twn men who have started the business of pol shlng u t) old play-ing cards so tha t they may bo used again. They charged eluht cents for cleaning and a pack could be cleaned three times. The government has stepped In and seized the plant of the three factories, on the ground t h a t tho renovated cards should pay the usual excise tax imposed upon new cards. The card cleaners are resolved to fight the case In the courts, as the business was very profitable.

READY READING-

More people die In the spring than in anv of the other seasons.

A new India rubber .tree has been found on the island of Madagascar.

There is a falling off in the number of children a t tending public schools in New Y'ork.

The shortest names ment :oned in the Bible are Ai, Ar, Ed, Og. No, On, So, Dr and U t

A Shawnee lad. who entered the Indian school in Virginia as Tommy Wild Cat, remains under the dignified name of Thomas W. C a t t

A very sad death is that of Miss Annie Loftus of New York, who ex-pired In the arms of her lover two nights befora her wedding day.

I t is s tated that a pail of water containing a handful of hay, if placed In a room where there has been smoking, will absorb all the odors of the tobacco.

A mdvement has b?en inaugurated a t Scranton. Pa., to send a choir of 160 Welsh-Americans to Wales next year to represent tha United States a t the national eisteddfod.

Tho most highly prized piece of an-cestral silverware preserved by the Lees of Virginia is a mammoth stirrup-cup, which even wh -n empty is a bur-den for two s ta lwart arms to l i f t up.

The selling of nntlered buck's heads is just now o*j.c of the industries of the North Woods. The heads are sold a t W each, and it costs 816 or more to prepare one f »r use is a hat rack or a wall ornameni.

CURIOUS .CLIPPINGS. *1

Roman schoolboys used a wax tablet and pointed stylus instead of slato and pencil.

Great Britain got two of her pos-sessions from pirates—the Leeward islands in Borneo and Sarawak In the northwest of Borneo.

A Birmingham official greeted tho local chief magis t ra te with •'Hollo, old boss!" Tho old boss, or rather, tho mayor, fined him 8l0.

An English woman had the tulsfar-tuno a few evenings ago to fall and break a leg while dancing a t a sab-urban ball. She alleges tha t tho fall was duo to tho clumsiness of tho gen-tleman. I t would not be polite, of course, for him to set up contributory negligence on the lady's part, so he is wondering wha t the penalty will be.

Professor Tcheraz tells some in-teresting legends from the folk-lore of Armenia. Ono of these is t h a t the Savior was | assing through a certain field where all the plants In tho field bowed down to him with the excep-tion of the tobacco p l an t Displeased a t this the Savior said: "Accurst thoa ar t ; burn forever." "Tho Armenians," added the professor, "assist largely in carrying out tho sentence which they believe to havo been pronounced on tha t p l a n t "

Mrs. B a r t l c t t wife of the owner of the magnesia mine in Chiles Valley, Cat., was out with a 22-caliber rifle shooting a t fences and rocks, when she noticed a can some fifty yards away. Taking aim, sho fired a t it, and a big explosion resulted. The can did not happen to bo an empty one. I t contained twenty-five pounds of giant powder. By its explosion fences wore torn down and posts razed to the ground. The shock broke all the windows in the house, tore off the weather boarding and threw Bartlet t and William Bradley, who were In the kitchen, in a heap upon the floor. Luckily Mrs. Bartlet t the innocent cause of all this commotion, was nol injured.

FEMININITIES.

Recent statistics show tha t England contains over a million widows, while the widowers number only half t h a t many.

The only time a man is willing to •lay a t home and t ake care of the house is when his wife wants him to go to prayermeeting with her.

Tramp—Madam, have you an axe? Lady of tho house—No. "Have yon a saw?"' "No. I havo no saw." "Then give me u little something to eat, please."

Judge Dnffy—What is your age'.' (Female witness hesitates.) "Don' t hesitate in answering the question. The longer you hes. taie the older you'll be."

Rose—Couldn't we get up a lottery for the lienetit of the church? Daisy —A lot tery? Our minister is so op-posed to lotteries tha t he has con-scientious scrunles about performing the marriage service.

Arrangements have been made by the German mil i ta r / authorities on the first intimation of war to in-stantly convey by rail all the women and children in such large towns as Melz and Strnsburg. as well as smaller places, into Germany.

Aged Husband—I ivgin to think. Man*, tha t I've wrecked your young ha -piness by permitt ing vou to marry an old man like mo. Young Wife— Oh, no, indeed! I expect, to make my second husband very jealous te l l ing him how fond I was of you.

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MT. | OCTOR Walker sat

alone in h s office a t the Orthopedic hospital one dark storm y n i g h t Outside, the wind and rain w e r e

having it all their own way. The galo swept around the huge building with mad shrieks, like a score of fiends let

loose to riot and rejoice in the misery of differing human souls. The rain came down in wild eusls , dashing it-self impudently into the faces of the few chance pedestrians, and forcing those obliged to be abroad to turn resolute faces homeward. Ah! Heaven l-e merciful to the wretch who had no home that night!

Within the hospital dead silence reigned. The patien;s were (apposed U) be disposed for the n i g h t and 1 ghts were out, only in the wards where the sufferers were so dangerously ill that the watchers by their bedsides sat wailing with pat ient outward com-posure for the approaching end.

Doctor Walker—he was fa i.iliarly known throughout tho institution as "Doctor Will"—sat porinpover a huge volume upon the table before him, and striving to concentrato his thoughts upon its contents. Hut ho seemed out of sorts to-night; he seemed restless and uneasy. A noble, manly face, with handsome features and kindly blue eyes. His upoer lip was shaded by a drooping mustache, which i t was his habit, when perplexed or annoved, to bite furiously. Altogether, Doctor Will Walker was a man to attract, to invito confidence; an ideal character for a physician. For all physicians, especially where nervous diseases are a specialty, should possess this attrac-tion to the patients.

"I wonder what ails mc to-night?" ho exclaimed half aloud, closing the book a t las tand pushing i t aside wi th a weary gesture. "Somehow I cannot study, or find interest in my work. Now. if I were l ike so no of my inter-esting nervous patients, I would say that I feel as if something was going to happen? Hah! what foliy in a Btronjf man to allow his nerves to af-fect his whole life. One must exert will-power and

"Ah! what is it? Did you speak to me Kate?"

For there a t tho half open door of the office. Diwtor Will's quick glance had detected ono of the n g h t nurses —a t leasant faced, kindly-looking woman who had been long attached to the hospital. Sho s te ped to tho threshold, and threw the door open.

"Yes. doctor, 1 wanted to tell you that there is a new putient in the re-ception room. A young man who has been brought here in a cab. His arm is broken, I think. The driver said the young man hailed tho cab about an hour ago, on Green s t r e e t and said he had broken his arm, and wished to be taken to fri<-nds a t the other end of the city. The driver drove the young man to the street and nnmber designated, but thete was no one there. The house was quite empty, anil a policeman, near, said tha t the family had (rone to Europe. At t h a t the young man uttered a cry of disap-pointment which the cab-driver said made his own heart ache; and then he reeled unsteadilv and nearly fell to the (rround. Hut the driver and po-liceman toirether placed him in the cab. and he was taken hero, as it hap-pened to be only a few bio. ks awav. '

By this time Doctor Will had fol-lowed Kate into tho reception-room, where a slight form in a • eat gray enit lay upon a sofa, quite uncon-scious.

The doctor disnatched the curse for his surgical instrame its and soon had re • oved the stranger 's coat and rolled up the sleeves of t h e snowv under garments, soft and fine. The face upon the sofa pillow was delicate and relined; a face with perfect features; the long, dark eyelashes sweooin? the white cheeks, the soft, da rk hair curl-ing slightly, brushed awav from a broad, low brow. The interesting pat ient could not have been more than seventeen. No trace of beard or moustache darkened the s o f t fa i r skin. He looked as helpless as a child lying there before the keen, searching-eyes of the young physician. Some-thing—a s t range sensation which Doctor Will did not s top to analyze— moved his heart as he touched the round white arm, and prepared to ex-examine tho injuries.

•Compound fracture!" he muttered eoneis'ly. "Come here Kate! You will have to assist me!"

"Dear me!" ejaculated tho nurse, bending over the slim, graceful form, he's as delicate as a girl. Look! See the blue veins in h s arm. Poor young chap. He has to suffer yet, before tha t arm will be welL"

A little later, bis injuries attended to, the strange pat ient was placed in bed. He had recovered consciousness, and opened a pair of great, dark, beautiful eyes to meet Dr. Will's sym-pathetic gaze.

"Where am I?" faltered the pa t i en t "In tho Orthopedic hospital, sir.

You have broken your arm and were brought here by a cab driver. You are perfectly safe here. Tell rao your name and where shall I send for 3'our friends?"

"My name," a slight hesitation, "is Halton—Parke Halton. My friends? Ah! I have none! I—I went to the house of old friends—they have gone to Europe. I have not been hero long! I havo no place to go. But I have money."

"Don't trouble yourself, Mr. Halton. You are all r ight here. The wards are full, and I have had you placcd in a private room,"

' T h a n k yott! I am able to pay for , it. You will get mo well as soon HS j possible doctor " with a s l ight in. ' terrogation.

"I am Doctor William Walker of this hospital. 1 shall do al l In my power for you. It Is nothing danger-ous, ray dear sir: only you must have res t Now I will givo you a sleeping potion, and hope to find you be t te r in tho morning."

Parke Halton drank the sleepinfir d r augh t and almost immediately fell asleep.

Doctor Will sat watching tho pale, beautiful face upon the pillow before him with an odd sensation struggling under his lef t vest pocket

"What aspiri tnclie face for a m a n -or a boy rather?" he exclaimed. "I declare 1 was never so interested iu a patient before in my life!"

Tho next day Parke Halton was much better, and as the days went by he grow rapidly stronger. i

Dr. Will spent more time in the ! room of his interesting pat ient than he had ever been known to do before. There seemed some subtle attraction between the two; and as time passed It grow and strengthened.

At last Parke was fully recovered, and in a few days would be discharged from the hospital.

One night Kate, the nijrht nurse, was startled by the sound of fa in t sob-bing and stifled weeping which seemed to come from tho end of tho long cor-ridor near the sleeoing room of Dr. Will. She hastened softlv to the spot determined to know what was the matter. This is what she saw:

Parke Halton on his knees a t the door of the doctor's room, weeping bitterly.

Directly, the yonng man arose to his f e e t and entered the room, for the physicians' room was never locked, but

eyes met the Leolioe's dark How could he

She arose to

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"UK HATKD MK. DESPISED ME" always ready for a hasty summons in the night.

In speechless amazement Kate no-ticed the voting patient steal softly to the bedside, and stooping, press a kiss upon the brow of the sleeping physi-cian; then, weeping bitterly, steal away once more.

Out In the corridor the nurse sud-denly confronted the young raan. Halton fell back with a stifled cry.

"Explain yourself, sir," began the nurse. "Your conduct is rather un-usual."

A sudden resolution seemed to come Into the young man's mind.

"Come to my room," ho said, in a hurried whisper, "and I will tell you all 1 have a c mfesslon to make!"

The next morning when Doctor Will awoke from his slumbers he found upon his bed a small locket contain-i g tho pictured face of a girl. I t was tho exact counterpar t of Parko Halton. When he left his room ho was met by Kate, who announced tha t the young man was gone. Sho had found his bed empty t h a t morning, and a sum of money sufficient to more than cover his expenses a t the hospi-tal lying noon the table. But what-ever the secret confided to Kate she kept is. inviolate. Doctor Will's face clouded, and a troubled look crept into his eves After t h a t he became very quiet and taciturn, and alto-gether a changed man.

Ono day he received a summons to an up-town mansion; i ts owner lay dying—stricken down by a swift and sudden disease. Arrived a t his bed-side, Doctor Will saw a t once tha t it was too late to save him; his hours were numbered.

"I have somethinir t o tell you," the dying man said, feebly. "See that no one is near. Wa i t I wish to send for my ward, Leolino Lea."

A raessaire was dispatched, and in a f ew moments a yonng girl entered the room. At sight of her, the blood re-ceded from Doctor Will's heart, and he felt as though he was coing to f a i n t For it was the face in the locket, which Doctor Will even then wore over his h e a r t and the fat-simile of Pa rke Halton. Stifling an excla-mation, the girl sank into a s c a t The dying man began:

" I was guardian over Leoiine Lea's property. Sho was very rich: but I have squandered her estate; I am dying now. 1 ioved her and 1 determined t o make her my wife; thus I need never render an account of the wasted fortune. I persecuted her for a yea r to gain her consent She would soon be 21 and out of my power, and then I would be forced to pive an account of her squandered fortune. I was half wild lest I be discovered and punished. I did all in my power to force her into marriage wi th me. She hated me. despised me, scorned me.

"At last, tired of her defiance. I locked her in her own room up stairs in this house, and decided to starve her into obedience to my wishes.

"To my consternation the girl es-caped from her pr son. Sho knotted the blankets together and made a rope by which she managed to effect her escape.

"She was gone several weeks. I was half distracted over her absence, for sho was as ignorant of the world as a little child. Had she not been, sho would have known tha t the law

gives no guardian the r ight to deprive his ward of liberty.

"On her twentv-first birth-day, how-ever, she reappeared and demanded tho restitution of her fortune. But sho would give no account of her whereabouts dur ing her absence from

| my house until to-day. when she de-j elated tlmt. she had found refuge in 1 the Orthopedic hospital. I have sent j for you to corroborate her story. Doc-| tor Walker have you ever met my j ward before? ' j Doctor WlM's bine 1 frightened gn/e of I ones; thoy droo ed. 1 answer that question? , her feet.

•Yes, Doctor Walker h i s met mo I before. I am Parke Halton." Her I face was ghastly while now, and sho j trembled pereeptiblv. "I was very I ignorant of the world's ways, as my gtmrdiun acknowledges—a friendless orphan—or I would lonir ago have ap-pealed to tho law for protection from his persecutions. In the wardrobe of tho room where 1 was imprisoned I found a suit of men's clothing; 1 man-aged to a l ter them so tha t I could wear them; and. knot t ing blankets and sheets together, finally escaped from tho window, breaking my arm in my fiiirht I had hoped to find re fuge until ray twenty-first birthday with so r e acquaintances a t the farther end of the city, but when I reached the house it was closed an I the fainilv gone to Europe.

" I was in terrible pain with my broken arm. and t h a t with the disap-pointment, overcame me, and I fainted, and was taken to the hospital. You know the rest, doctor. Can you ever forgive my unwomanly conduct?"

Doctor Will took both little hands in his own, and led her fro n the room.

I know this." he said, in a low, tender tone, " t h a t 1 love von as man never loved woman before. Will you I be my wife, Leoiine?"

Her eyes drooped before his passion- ] a t e gaze.

" I have loved you ever since mv 1

eyes first opened from that swoon in 1 the hospital," t»he faltered, "and it 1

nearly drove rae distracted to reile.et upon my false position. You surely cannot love or respect me?"

But there was no doubt of the love which filled his h e a r t and with t rue love respect comes always.

And tha' was the way in which my f r end Walker found his wife—Doctor Will's Strange Patient!

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When Brakotnan Thompson ouenod a switch ut Kingsbury, Ind., and sent a Wabash passenger t ra in headlong aga ins t a solid lino of loaded freight cars, the ind ignant public suggesto 1 al l sorts of punishment for him. Men who had worked on train onews were not so bitter. One of the promi-nen t railway officials ot Chicago—a general passenger agent—took the trouble to look into Thompsons record and learned t h a t ho had been ono of tho most in te l l igen t compe-t e n t and carefu l men in the employ of the company, says tho Chicago Reoord.

••He has Buffered his full penalty a l ready ," said tho passenger ag. n t " I know what i t is to live a year in two seconds. When 1 was a mere boy. crazy for rai lroadiug, 1 weut out a s a f r e igh t brakeman. Ono day our t ra in was on a siding wait ing for an express to go by. I went ahead to tho switch. Now, I w a m ' t th inking of switches, t r a ins or anything else in tho world excep t a cer ta in person whom I was expect ing to meet a t the other end of the run. 1 went to thut switch whist l ing and th inking of something else. 1 unlocked tho switch; threw it open, turned my | back to i t and watched tho expross ! t ra in grow larger as i t swung down i tho long grade toward rae. but 1 i wasn ' t th inking of i t until, when i t ; was almost upon mo, 1 noticed tho < engineer jump from his place in t h e :

window. The whist le for brakes j helpod to arouse mo. I turned to 1 the switch, and then it dawned upon mo that the switoh was open and tha t the express was headed f u r the sid-ing. .

••I jumped aga ins t the up r igh t and the t ra in went by on tho main track.

••The engineer 's face was wlnto th rough tho coal d u s t I hud no time to lock tho switch. I simply lay against it until the last cat* had passed, and theu I dropped in a faint.

" T h a t engineer know rao and never reported i t If ho had I wouldn't have been in the railroad business to-day.

••Since then I have some pity and sympathy for men who make what soera to be criminal blundors. Yoa can ' t tell why thoy do certain th ings a t tho wrong times. They can t tel 1 themselves ."

Organ Man—How's business? Rag Man—Picking u p How's yours? Or-gan Man -Same o ld / r ind .

Wife—Oh, John, I saw an ideal bon-net down town to-day. Husband— Yours is better than that, dear; yours is real.

Young Spendthrift—Lend me SIC will yon? Benevolent Hanker—No; but I ' l l give you a letter to a man I don't like."

Hostess, to male guest a t tea table— Oh, by the way, Mr. Sniddle, do you take •nuff? Sniddle—Only sugar and cream, thank yoa; no snuff, if you please.

" I suppose Plunkins would have a much more extensive library if there were no such thing as book borrow-ing." "Dear me, no! I doubt if he would have any."

Dinkle—It's a s t range thing to me how a short man always wants a tall girl. Dunkle—Humph! It 's a s t range thing to mc how a short man wants any girl. I'm blamed if I do when I 'm sho r t

Pessimist—Do yott really think tho world will ever be Christianized? Optimist—Y'ou bet I do. And, a t the rate the heathen are being wiped out by these machine guns nowadays, it won't be lon*r. ei ther

"Why is my little wife so cheery this evening?" inquired Mr. Pott les •f Mrs. Pottles. "Because," replied Mrs. Pottles, author of "How to L.vo Well on 870 a Year," "because, dear , I've just got the butcher 's bill for tho last month and i t 's only 8180."

A German urged an Englishnu-.. t o go shooting with him. "Oh," said tho Englishman haughtily, " I do not care for hunting unless i t contains tho

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SATURDAY. JANUARY 6. 1894

AND Governor Rich wants another term. John, y u wake the i>eopIe

tired. • *

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Ex PRESIDENT HARRISON is said to be getting his boom ready for a third nomination. He doubtlew thinks that, what's sauce for Grover would be mince meat for Benjamin.

He can tell by trying. * # *

J U D G E ADSIT has rendered a right-eous decision; and Fred Leonard will not be shoved into a mad boute by the Withey gang just yet. Mr. Withey will now be at liberty to hire n couple of thugs to fire the court house.

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GOVERNOR W A I T E of Colorado, be of "blood to the bridle" fame, is threatened with impeachment by the b^islature of his own gtate; and will doubtless postpone his declaration of war against the United States govern-ment. What an elegant crank he is, any way!

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E V E R Y country in Europe is strug-gling under worse conditions than ex-ist in America to-day. Honestly and fairly, now Republican reader, how

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"Leys laughs at locksmiths," as . those Grand Rapids people who are , trying to force an eighteen-year-old daughter into an uncongenial mar-

. riage will ascertain. She will marry whom she likes—as she ought—-and the old folks are 'simply creating lifelong unpleasantness for nothing.

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THE aMassin of Mayor Harrison will forfeit his life as a penalty for his crime. His death may act as

, deterrent upon the dangerous army of cranks who are springing up mush-room-like in every direction. Assas-

sination cranks and anarchists are like mad dogs. There is only one

.cure for them—death. * *

^ A Y O R P I N G E E E advocates the -tearing down of Detroit's old city hall and the building of a new one, in or

J e r to give employment to the poor of that city instead of giving alms and receiving no returns. Hazen is the .stuff to make a good governor of, and if he will only save us from another .term of Rich, we won't take back a syl lable of all the good things we have said of hiin. Say, Mr, Pingree, going to do any advertising soon?

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THE panic of 1873 was a very bad affair. President Grant had just been .elected ^ d the Republican party hac had control of the government for eleven years. Grover Cleveland didn'; have a finger in that pie; but the L E D G E R isn't mean enough to hold the old General or even the 1 Republican party responsible <br it. The fact is, we are a nation of rushers. We live too fast, apd do too much business on small capital. There is a limit to all things, even to Yankee shrewdness and the time for a smash-up inev itably comes, no matter what party is in power. In this country a reckon ing aeems to be due every thirty years -^he panic of '73 f und the Republi flans in power; but this one catches ^jie pcmocj-nta. Four elates of peo

pie will continue to ring the changes on Grover and the Democrats: Peo-ple with short memories, people who can't think beyond their nose-ends, those who hate a Democrat any way, and those who do it for fttn. All of them should improve their opportun-ity, for good times are coming under Grover Cleveland.

• » •

M A R Y LEASE the Kansas woman who wanly? to wear pants just like the "horrid men," so there, new, is in a peck of trouble. Governor Lewelling appointed a Democrat to office and Mary told the Governor that either the Democrat or she would have to go as she wouldn't serve on his staff with a nasty Democrat. So the governor told Mary to go, then; and now Mary she won't go, and the tempest in the Kansas teapot fairly rages. Yes, the L E D G E R believes in women's rights; but one Lease is enough for life and the country too. She is like a grain of musk—she's little, but oh, my!

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PASTOR SHANKS, in the course of a recent sermon, expressed surprise that there were people in Lowell who be-lieved in Jesus Christ only as a model fellow-man and not as a divine Sav-ior. The elder calls it "queer theol-ogy," but if he will investigate, he will find that our country has many good people, who while rejecting the divinity ascribed to hikn, accept gladly the teachings of the gentle Master and believe in and revere the idemory of a fellow-man, a noble pattern for all generations. That thitis not an ir-rational belief is well shown by the moral and intellectual standing of those who hold it.

BELDINO.

From the Star, Dec. 29.

Quite an excitement was caused yesterday by a telephone message from the Belding Mfg. Co. stating that the body of an un-known man had been found hanging in the chemical works factory. The body prored to be that of Jacob Kopp, ng*d 47 years, bro-ther of Peter Kopp, who is well known here. His home was in Grand Rapids, where he has a wife and five children. He came here recently having met with hard luck in the Rapids. He had been out of work for about five months, and had been .compelled to mortgage his little but pleas. ant home. Since coming here he has lived with his brother, Peter and has done, con-siderable work at one thing and aqother Last Saturday he went home to spend Christ-mas. While there he paid the insurance and taxes on his home and paid the bal-ance of his surplus on a grocery bill. Since returning to Belding, he has been very despondent, and on Wednesday told his brother he would kill himself. Mr. Kopp did not take the threat seriously but still kept on the lookout. On Wednesday eve-ning he found him on the streets rather in-toxicated and took him home. Yesterday abont eleven o'clock he left the house and that was the last they saw of him.

Miss Botie Fisfc, of Ottsco township, is quite ill wilh acarlfefbver.

CHAS. I CHURCH & SON,

CHA8. J. CHURCH, CHAS. A. CHUHCH.

Established al •GreenvilU -iSM. lowdl, 1888.

Chas.KMt hat market to E. A The new I n i t t bittoos y o * K M f t we predict

Ihe north sidemcnt A. A. Coles,

of two am-well known, and

CURE FOR HEADACHE. At a remedy for all ferns of Headart c

Elettric Bitters hat prardl tobt tbc very sr.. It effectt a permanent enre and o e

mMt dreaded tick hrdbebet TI«M to Itti fl.ieaen. We argt all Who are afflicted to pr>> euro a bottle, and eiveUiU remedy a (air trial. In cases of habitaal ronstlpatton E tc trie Bitters cures by giving tba needed torn to the bowels and few ctset long nsiH the use of this medldDi. Try it oa< a. L*rg boUlts only50 caatt at Huntrr A Boa'tdrag store

GUARANTEED CURE. We antborln oar advertised druggist to

sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Conaump Hon. Coughs and Colds, upin this condition If you a>e afflicted with a Cougli. • 'old or aay LuBr,Tfarott or Cfaett troabls, and will use thlt remedy at directed, giviag it a fair tri«l, a-d experienee no ban- nt, vou nuy return the bottle aad have your money refaBd^d. We could not mtkethlt dBbr did we not know thai "r. KIIIK'S New Diteovsry could be re-lied oa Itn ver disappoints. Trial bottt •« in* at Hunter k ttoa'a drug •tor's, large s<se 50c and $1.

CALJFCONTA

From the News, Dee. &

Marriage licenses are out for Peter Thomas and Grace Stadair, both of Bowne, and Joseph L. Cook of Cascade, to Myrtle Barris of Caledonia.

Mist Ollie Krieger leaves the first of the week for a few weeks visit with relatives and friend* at Richland, after she goes to Cleveland Ohio to take a position in t ' • postofice.

Jacob C. Defenbaker died of cancers, Tut-sday the 26th, at hit home in Alatka at the agt of 66 years apd 11 months. Funeral sarvices were held Wednesday, Rev. J. N, Dayton officiating.

Mr. and Mrs, John Staufer of Ada, spent a few days with friends in this vicinity.

Wednesday a y i q i , December 20, about 50 refatlvw.and frin^ds gathered at the residence of Mr. and Mrt. A. F. Cook to witness the marriage of Mist Bertha Wing to Herbert Auble of Cascade, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Fox acting as beat man and lady.

The ceremony was performed at about 8 o'clock by the Rev. J. J. Finley of Cascade, after which several tablet were spread with rich viandt of which all seemed to enjny

THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! Until Further Notice Wo will Sell

ALL SUMMER GOODS t COST FOR CASH.

We have too many goods and we will give you bargains iu all our Hues.

W o o l a n d W h e a t a r e C h e a p , b u t we will sell you D r y Goods

C h e a p e r . C o m e a n d Sec U s .

C. C. STONE SON.

Fair Announcement-^ Arriving. New and Unique JVaigns, Cheaper than Ever Before. Call in and Examine Them, and you will Receive the Same Courteous Treatment hat has Always Been Given You. O. G . H A L E , O n t h e B r i d g e .

Art i s t i c P h o t o g r a p h y ! 4 % P E R C E N T , a B i g In t e re s t . 4 m 9 S a v e t h a t b y g e t t i n g C a b i -ne t s , Crayons . P i c t u r e F r a m e s , a n d al l k i n d s of P h o t o g r a p h i n g u t t h e

ns iLim W e W a n t W o o d O n e Dozen Cab ine t s f o r one C o r d . N o w

is Y o u r T i m e fo r t h e H o l i d a y s . W e M a k e t h e Best .

J. ROBERTSON, THE SHOEMAKER,

Has All Kinds of Footwear, Boots, Shoes, Rubbers and Felts

"Cheap for Cash," \

A n d a n y o n e ^rho f r o m rickness, or lack

of w o r k finds h i s p o c k e t book s l im , can h a v e Shoes a n d R u b b e r s fo r t h e C h i l d r e n fo r a V e r y

L i t t l e Monoy . J

N e w s / T H E T I M E : J./ EOBERTSON.

LOWELL, - MICH.

- N O W I S -

Weat Side Shoe Store.

All kinds of warm

FOOTWEAR, At lowest prices for cash.

D. E. MURRAY.

ARE TOO TFFLNHNO ? O F —

Erecting a Monument ? - I F S O , C A L L O N

K I S O R & ATJBf iS ,

Manufacturers of Marble and

Granite Cemetery W ork.

FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES.

?\ isor j- Jflpers, Xcwell, Miclj.

G. BER6IN,

To yrodnoeggs abundantly duri or when

small yank.

MUST feed and care adapted to these

Hens are sure to

LAY ly when

Prolific Poultry pwl DBA LET. IN is mixed with soft feed tor them

morning Bold eveiywhero. 1 lb. 25o, 8«f lbs. Wo lbs. $1.00. if you cannot got It. Bond $i. mo fbr a 6 lb. pkg. by express prepaid L B. LORD. Prae. Btrilnctsa. VT, (J. S- A.

Fine Teas and Coffees, Spices, Sugars c->d

Groceries,

LOWELL, MICH. Twenty-five newspapers, 5 c e n ^

this office. • Bountiful embroidered slippRR s c""

ing chenp nt J. l*bberl3on a.

EAST CASCADE.

Truman Strong and family have moved to Athens, Tennessee where he ha^ a ji'iRition as hoad sawyer in a large mill, lie expccts to slay one year.

The inrnut daughter of Willie Heschc •iieii Wednesday last and was buried Fri-day aged 19 days.

Samuel Onss 1* some letter at the present writing.

Tlie L. A. S. met with Mrs. Levi Ihirnw January, 3.

Mnf. F. M.TIximps.-m lovt a bag of corn <>ne night whilo sho was away from hime. She als-» has misw l some com stalks from lime to lime. It must be a pretty low bus inc»s to help ones self out of a widow's barn. She ought to a big "bsr'' trap or gel three or Tour bull-dogs.

Colds, coughs, bronchitis, and all throt and lung diseases arc effectively treated wilh Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. To ne j l !ct the use of proper remedies for these ailments, is to induce consumption, which is said to vause one-k-fxth of the mortality in all civilized oaim'tries.

«ARANA0.

From the 1/tcjil, Dec. 29. Miss Nancy I^wis has purchased a honse

«nd lot on the west from A. W. Holcomb, Married, in Saranac, on Chrirtmas eve-

ning by Rev. J . A. S. Word en, at his resi-«lenoc, Mr. Ralph A. Yonng to Miss Bessie M. Noyes, both of Saranac.

Wm. Morrison a lormcr resident of Keene and well known in Saranac, made a short visit here this week. He is now living in Pennsylvania, and has been selling seeds for D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, for some time,

Wm. Biodie is failing slowly and hopes of bis recovery are growing less every day. He has been failing for a long time pre-vious to this sickness.

During the past half-century—tince the discovery of Ayer't -arsaiwrilla—the ave-rage limit of human life in civiliied conntries has been consid arabely length-ened. Ayer's Sarsaparilla it everywhere considered the slandered bhrnd-porifier, the

Superior Madieinc.

RIVER ROAD RIVAL. Arthur Hendricks and sister Delia of

Bowne visited at L. A. (barter's Thursday and Friday.

Miss Mae Hiulings attended the Voorhies —Gardner wedding last week.

Wc arc glad to report Alonzo Coonrod and wife as recovering from the grippe.

Luman Cogswell, J r . of East Lowell was the guest of his sister Mrs. Ed Story over Sunday.

Mrs. Frank Ernst returned Monday from Pewamo. Her mother who was reported siriously ill is much better.

Married, al the residence of the bribe's parents Mr. and Mrs. Althonte, Jan. 1, 1894, Christian Wittenbach of Vergennes to Miss Anna Aithouse of Lowell. Con-gratulations.

Luther Sweet and wife were the guests of Corkins Barney and family New Years.

Jos. Denny and wife attended the funeral of one of their grand children in Grand Rspids the first of this week.

Mrs. P. J . Dcvine of Stanton is the gnest of her parents H. Eply and wife.

Lorenzo Chelsey and wife of Grand Rapids and Mr. John and daughter Libbie of Gr.md Ledge are visiting U. S. McCanl and wife this week and S'veral others from this vicinity.

Messrs Ed Story and Eugene Lee with wives enjoyed the New Years part at Luma Cogswells of East Liwell Mond ay evening there were over fif y present.

ALTON. Guests at Edmund Ring's New Years

were Harmon Ring and wife of Keene also L'yrun Ring and wife and adopted dajghter of Otis(*».

C. Church and Joseph Richmond and their wivct of I*well tpent New Years with D. A. Chnrch and wife.

Alfred Haney if Williamstown was a guest of George Frost fbf a few days last week.

Mrs John Hafeman spent New Years with rebitivs in Saranac.

Three fights in Alton last week. No one killed or seriously injured.

Fred Scofield and wife of Traverse City enjoyed the Holidays with their parents and friends here.

Burt Campliell returned to Grand Rapids Tuesday after a two weeks vacation to re-MUine hiti studies in dentistry.

Dojs got into the sheepfodls of Gotleip Roth, George Ford and F. J . Moshier last wnek and did a great deal of damage.

Wm. Andrews and brother Lewis R. of Dakota arc visiting friends and relatives here.

Mrs. Mnria Haney has go^e to Williams-town, her old home,

Samh .White wjll not return to Traverse City having efiS&led her obligations with the Inane Institute of that place.

J . Mosier is entertaining u cousin from Wisconsin.

Our revival meetings closed last week Wednesday.

The reccptoion which was given Charley Godfrey and his bride Inst Sat nrday evening by his parents at then residence was enjoye-l by a great many Iriends and relatives, and many tokens ol lemembntfhce were left them to remind them of the happy event in uflcr years. A lung and pleasant life together crowned wilh many blessings is the best wishes of I ' No, Jn .

VERGENNES.

Under the direction of the Vergennes Reading Circle, there will be giren Jan. 12, at the M. E. Church in Vergennes, an en-tertainment consisting of a lecture by Rev. .lames Provan of Lowell, subject "Wit and Humor" with music and recitations. The proceeds to be given to the sufferers in the Upper Peninsula. Admission ten cents and large donations will be gladly received. Kxercises will l)egin at 7:30.

The oyster supper held at O. O. Adams,' w s • derided succesa socially and financially. The Indies clearing over five dollars. Mr. Adams and daughter favored the company wilh several very fine pieces of mnsic Mr. Adams is certainly a master hand with a violin

The time of sen-ices at the Bailev church and Keene church has l»een changed Hereafter there will be services al the Bailey church every Sunday morning at 10.30 and at the Keene church every Sun-day aftemo n at 2.30. All are cordially invited.

Miss Ina Findlay vis ted friends in Grand Rapids last week.

Allie Bennet has got so he can walk aroond on hit (bet He is going to s.-hool now.

Bessie White is having a two wcebi va-cation of her school. She •ill coininonce teaching again next Mondav.

Dame Rumor sava there will be two wed-dings in the near fu ure. *v" >. •!•<• so.

There is no serious sickness in this vici-nity for which we are very thankful. A few nre . n iu^ and trviiv.' t<- -Miade them.-- > s t'.ey have got the • they are •. I < .n'l and go o ;•••••••» km a-i

Lowell Markets. Invariably corrected every (• i id»y morning.

Wheat, white, $ 0 58 @ Wheat,red 58 @ Corn..... 40 Oats 30 @ Rye 42 Barley, per hundred 75 @ Flour, per hundred 1 80 (fl Bran, per ton 18 00 ($ Middlings, per toa 14 00 ^ Corn Meal, per ton 30 00 ^ Corn and Oats, per ton.... SO 00 Butter Ifi (tf 17 Eggs 80 Potatoes 85 (a; 40 Beans. 1 10 ^ 1 85 Beef 4 50 (di 5 50 Pork 5 25 § 5 75 Chickens, 7 fij 8 Cabbage, per dot 40 50 Wooi.watbed 10 18 Apoles, per bW 2 00 ^ 3 35 Onions 50 (a) 60

Business Directory,

D O N ' T F O R C E T ! T h a t we h a v e E v e r y t h i n g t h a t is m a d e to K e e p y o u r

F e e t W a r m , a t P r i c o s t h a t C a n ' t be Bea;en for Good Goods.

The Old Reliable,

A, J. HOWK & SON. Go to

THE DAVIS HOUSE, John CuUer, proprietor. Overhauled and

refuted throughout, and now ready for the travellnr public. Rates reasonable.

J, HARRISON RICKERT, Dentist. Over Church's bank, Lowell.

MILTON M. PERRV, Solicitor in Chancery and Pension Attorney,

1.0well, Mich.

B. E. BURT, Notary public. Your business solicited,

lice In Graham block. Of-

S. P. HICKS, Loans, Collections, Real Estate and Insur-

ance. Lowell, MIcb.

O. C. McDANNEL, MTD^ Physician and Surgeon. Office, 4fl Bridge

street. Lowell, Mich.

M. C. OREEN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Office at Residence,

E Bridge street, Lowell, Mich.

W. F . BR'K»KS, M. D , Physician and Shrgeon. Office hours, 10, a.

m to 8, p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.

FARMERS HOTEL, Lowell, Mich., 0. F. Lane, Proprietor. Rates

$100 per day. |S.S0 pei week. Good meals and clean beds.

J. C. TRAIN, Breeder of Hambletonlan Horses and Pro.

prletor of TRAIN'S HOTEL,

Accommodations first class, rates reasonable. Also proprietor of

TRAIN'S OPERA HOUSE, Seating capacity 700, lighted by electricity.

M i o m , THE LEADING

I L N R N E N A - Maker FOR

B L A N K E T S . Also Dog Skin, Gost an.1 Galloway Robf s.

Mains & Mains, Attorneys at Law,

Lowell, Mich.

We respectfully solicit your

business.

DETROIT, GRAND HAVEN A M I L W A U K E E T i m e Table In EfTeet Nov. 10 ,1803 .

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If the hair isfnliing out aqd turning gray, the glands of the skin need stimulating and color-food, and the best remedy and itim-ulunt is Hall's Hair Renewer.

Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday terviees as follows: Preaching in the morning nt 10:81). Sunday school ut 12 m., Dr. W. F. Brooks

Kiiperintendent. Kpworth League devotional meeting nt

ti;:iO p. m. All arc cordially invited.

'A. P. MOOK?, Pastor.

Poultry and Horse llcvicw with tha'LKDOER lor one year.

free

" O n l y t n e s c a r s

R e m a i n , "

g a y s HENRY HUDSON, o f t h e J a m e s Smith Woolen Machinery Co., Fhiladelphia, Pa., who certi-fies as follows:

" Among the many testimoni-als which I see in regard to cer-tain medicines p e r f o r m i n g cures, cleansing the blood, etc., none Impress me more than my o w n c a s e . Twenty years ago, at the age of 18 years, I had swellings come on my l e g s , which broke and became r u n -B l n g s o r e a . Our family phy-sician could do

me no good, and It was feared that the bones wonld be affected. At last, my good old

Mother Urged Me to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I took three bottles, the sores beulod, and I have not been troubled since. Only the soars remain, and the memory of the past, to remind me of the good Ayer's Sarsaparilla has done me. I now weigh two hundred and twenty pounds, and am in the best of health. I have been on the road for the past twelve years, have noticed Ayer's Sar-saparilla advertised In all parts of the United States, and always take pleas-ure in telling what good It did for me."

Ayer's Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer K Co., Lowell,Maaa.

C u r e s o t h e . S f w i l l e u r o y o u

FtEEPORT. From the Herald, Dec. 28.

Business was brisk in Freeport Saturday; the itrects thronged with teams and people.

A great interest is being worked up In our school by deviating from the old rule of text books only, and such books as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "Black Beauty," etc, are being used instead.

B. E. Quick and wife enjoyed Christmas in Lowell with their parents.

Ed. Neeb ot Canada is a welcome guest of hissistcr, Mrs. Herman Gosch of Bowne.

Juieph Yeiter of Lowell was in town last of the week and visited his sister, Mrs. Conrad Smnlker west of town also.

The family of W. IT. Godfrey gathered around the festive board on Christmas day and enjoyed a most boimtiful dinner and family rcuniun. All told, they numliercd i thirteen.

The Hemy Bros, of R.mne have traded 'heir brick bloc-k in Alto fur a 180 acrc farm in Lee township, Calhoun county.

The preKpects are that Freeport will have a creamery soon, a* the farmers are taking quite an interest in tlie project and the necessary stock is being placed. Mr. Coveli is here in the interest of the com-pany thai fnrnish the necessary machinery, etc., and is hustling the work along rapidly.

Fowls should be fortified aganst Roup and Chicken Cholera by mixing Prolific Poultry Food with their morning feed. The food is put up in 1 lb., 2^U)., and 51b packages, und is sold by all Druggists, Gro-cers and Feedmen. L. 15. Lord, Proprietor. Kurlington, Vt.

PATENT TUBULAR HAND SLED, "YOUTH'S

COMPANION," The handaomesl, the Ktrongest, the be<

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MURPHY 18 THE DEALER IN

Fresh Cured Meat. Poultry, Etc.

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IS HIS MOTTO,

H i g h e s t M a r k e t P r i c e s P a u l fo r S t o c k .

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G e n e r a l H a r d w a r e , a n d P e n i n -•Dnrmg navlgition only. , . ~,u , -p, rart l iair Cat, Buffet Car and Sleeping Car ! Sulai* btOVCS aU(t Kf tHgeS.

S< r -'l e t.HBlward No. 12 ha* Pullman Sleeper snd j

Buffet Ci r attached Chicago to Detroit daily. ' No. 4 has P r o r BulM Cir attached Grand Haven to iMrolt (extra charge 25 ceiitsj : No. 18 has parlor car attacbed iextra chMrce, ; twentv - live cents), No. 82 baa sleeper to | Detroit.

Wtrsbward No 11 IIHS pvlor car attached • extra eliarire 2.'> eenU J No. 15 Ina ntrlor buffet cur Htyi<-hed iMiolt to Grand Kaplii* extra eli r re So cents. No 17 has th** fineat •f Pnihiui Meoper .-."d Buffet Car atUehed 101 ;i iehgo d lily. No. SI bus tleeper to Grand Rai-lds

i.li y otHce tirst door "tstof tbe Kir^- Mil ling eompuny. < ip JII 7 a. m. to 8 p. iu. ^U-Uav. ^ Ui 6 p. in. JN'o. W. i.oUH, BEN FLETCHER,

Vnflli: Manager Trav. Pass Agent. I A. O. HEYDLAUFF, ,

Local Ag^nt. j

<1IICAGI» GRAND TRUNK K'V. j Traii^ »»-sve l»iir-.Ml for Battl'*. Creek,Cbl-

—IT • and Wna nt 0:85 a. m., 1:85 p. ID , and I 11:90pm I .-r, ,

K..r Flint, ' ' " t Huron .nd all po ' i i l s^ . ' , , vriCLZUiy (LUd

".Vest Main Street, Lowell, Mich.

p. ETLOVETT, Jiousc Painter,

Paper anger, and fyecoratc.

5 Olia iu., 0.:» a. iu , 6:86 p. la p. m.

(Jlnclnnati, Haginx

aud 10.90,

X Mackinaw R. R. ~ . . . . . . » \ VlWIIIIIve »• r-tsiininv* iv anviaiti'aw iv- »%• Wall J inline. the moat durable and by far the cheapest in , TN<I|LB F.,R and Bav • « . r\ • r. • the end. Weight n-t alxive that of the ' city at .r>\tO >. m, 0:40 a. m., and 0 50 p. m, I LaTr i fWC "OlJlMJig a SpeClOJt i : . ordinary woollen sled, but in strength | W. K. U KYI."4, G. P. A.. Cbuaco. 1 . i j j . i r i ' mauy limw superior. Made from soft steel tubing, edge supports under top to prevent splitting, and will safely support one thous-and pounds. Whv buy hull a doreu sleds for one boy when you ejin get one sled for halfa doxen bovs? (Jiven with iivc sub-scriptions al the LKIKJKU office.

L ; A'ELL MASTINGS KAILKOAD i lMK TABLE.

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A M O N S T E R W H A L E

THE United States army is to bo •applied with smokeless powder. Many of the soldier boys have al-ready had experience with i t in warm parlor engagements.

IT is safe to say t h a t the or iental jewelry counter in the Cal i forn ia ' Midway will not be extensively pa t -ronized by thb same persons who In-Tee ted t h a t way in Chicago.

THE English parl iament complains ef being overworked. If the English parl iament should work days and •leep nights. like the r e s t of tho world, i t would not ge t so t ired. Tho ' Knglish parliament i s tho only body :

of men tha t works nights , unless • o compelled by the necessity of tho

caee.

THE charge against t h e Boston psychological ins t i tu te of s tea l ing a corpse will not find many believers. If the ins t i tu te had an opportunity t o steal a real, genuine ghos t i t m i g h t yield to temptation. I t is no t par -t ial to soulless bodies; bu t i t would doubtless pay well for a disembodied •ouL

« criminal idiocy of paren ts who • lo^ r helpless children into the house while they go visit ing is ono of t h e things tha t the law seems powerless to reach. If the chi ldren were always burned alive, instead of oc-casionally escaping as they now do. the practice might e v n t u a l l y become tanpopular.

THE Metropolitan traction company of New York offers $5 J.O JO t o any «.ne who will invent a new motive power for s t reet cars. Emerson advised people, a long t ime ago, to h i tch their wagons to a s tar . Perhaps thia motive power would work as well on a street car as on a wagon. Tbe $53,0^*0 check can now bo for -warded a t once.

BEIKG arrested fo r hav ing caused the death of a child a Brooklyn man put forth the defense t h a t h e was a physician. This plea was not ac-cepted. the fact developing t h a t the claim cet up was false. However, t be episode would seem t o indicaio tha t the privilege of the healer to become killer is too generally recog-nized for public safety.

RECENTLY WASHED ASHORE ON LONG ISLAND.

Moath Klghtocn F*«t n igh by Twelr* PMt Wld«—Cavlii Gulp Down » Row Boat Pall of OecapMita with but Slight Effort.

H E P I C T U R E S you see here are re-productions of pho-tographs of the mighty b ig whale which was wat-hed u p on the bcach down a t Fridgc-hampton. L. 1., the oth r day. They were taken es-pecially fo r publi-

cation by Prof. W. C. Bartholdi of East Hampton, and they are exceedingly in-teresting. For who around these parts ever go t a whale near enough to shoot a camera a t him? Did anybody, any-way, ever before snap a shot a t a whale, living or dead?

This nart icular whale was dead, of course. You know t h a t B u t he hadn ' t been dead long and was a capital speci-

| men fo r the uses of photography. | When alive he stood sixty-five and a I half feet in his stockings, and he had a I mouth on him t h a t measured eighteen | feet in length by twelve in width. He

Not only arc tho Congo natives now working fo r wages on the road, but. Major Thys writes, many of them who are not in the service daily visit the scene of t rack laying and work for hours, apparently for tho fun of it .

Our picture is taken from a photo-graph sent t o Europe by Capt Weyns, showing a nnmber of these natives en-gaged in laying track. They are In charge of a white superintendent Major Thys says they arc as easily t augh t how to do good work on a rail-road as any black men he has ever had in his service. They have not grown weary of their new work, and the prospects are that the Congo labor problem is solved. If this experiment succeeds t h e company will have over-come one of i t s greatest difficulties. T u e railroad is now approaching one of the most populous districts of the lower Congo, and the company hopes to draw its working force from these villages instead of importing labor f rom tho Guinea coas t Things have

PLAYING WITH A TIGER.

EVEN LIONS SOMETIMES WANT TO ROMP WITH MEN.

InntancM Where The/ Acted Like Great, Frolicaome Klttem—The Lion More to Be Dreiided IIIMP the Tiger When En-raged—Strange Freukt.

T h e idea with a lmost every ono is t h a t a lion o r t iger is always bent on a t tack , und tha t to meet one is to ' br ing on an oncountor. f r om being t iuo. When infur ia ted by wound o r pressed by hunge r al-most any wild beast is dangerous to man, but tbero are occasions when the most ferocious of them desire peaco a t any price.

At Nellur , on the west sho re of tho gulf of Bengal, I went out with a pa r ty of Bri t ish officers to search fo r

, a man-eater who had crea ted g r e a t

••While I was f r ightened almost to dea th , " said tho man, " I had sens^ enough to humor him. I jumped a t him and he frisked and bounded liko a puppy. Then I re t rea ted and he ran a f t e r me. I t was two miles to the village, and wo k e p t up tho play unt l l within a few rods of the first h u t I bad my hand on him twenty times, and when I entered the v llago 1 had eomo of the ha i r s of his mano to prove tho par t icu lars of my ad-ven ture . "

While tho t iger has more natural

This i s " fa r ' ' e r o c ' t y t ^ n n ^ " o n ' ^ e is not to bo dreaded as much when enragod. Iu cha rg ing among t h o boaters tho t iger is general ly satisfied with knocking a sin TIO person down and

1 a f t e r th is feot ho will invariably j make a bo l t The lion, on the con-j t r a ry , if once aroused t o light for hi* j life, moans to dio r i g h t there a f t e r I do ing all tho h a r m ho can.

- , devastat ion to tho wos t He had, in-1 evidently moved on the Congo since d c o d driven most of the nat ives ou t ' Stanley labored in vain to induce these o f a five m i l e 8 9 i U a r e i a n ( i

same natives to help him carry h i s , , h 0 n u m b e r o f l o l t w a 3 8 a i ( n i 0 , -first loads of supplies up the river, h a d c a t c n ^ b 0 v e twenty. The f 1 " ^ a n y t h i n g fo r two days b u t ' a a l r n o f JI nOOr m a n WllO S ll>

Rhodr i i i i i eN A r t f u l S c h r n * .

••I'm not going to ask for money. mum, , , said hhodo ide,- nor for food, though I 'm fa in t with hunger and I

when he was on his way to Stanley Falls to found his first se t t lement

NAKED IN AN OPEN BOAT-

The Terrible Experience of Three S»U-on of m Wrecked Spanish Rnrk.

Naked, famishing for food and wra-tcr . and almost roasted by the tropical

OXE of those coincidences t h a t a r e { a s myster ious as they are in te res t ing ooourred in connection with the dea th of J o h n Nolan, an officer ot the su-perior cour t of New York. Last Saturday he , atook a not ion" to make his will, and, as h e was in excel lent health, was chaffed by f r iends whom k e a.sked to witness i t I t was signed and sealed t h a t af ternoon and the nex t day he died of hea r t d i sease

A PLEASING l i t t le vice-versa anec- j

dote emerges from tbe classic s h a d e s of Phil l ips academy a t Exeter, N. 11 The principal wouldn't lot the s tu-dents go to a burlesque performance and thereupon they plastered h i s roam among others full of tbe pleas-ing posters wherewith the a t t r ac -tions of the show were set forth. If Mohammed wouldn't go to the moun-tain. why, they Just fetched t h e mountain to him.

•OKG Jewell F l in t of Sacramento, dST. who shot a girl in the back because she had properly est imated him. and refused him he r hand, ha« boen allowed to plead guilty to murder in the second degree. I t would bo intorest in? to know what i s considered first-degree murder up t h a t way. Young Mr. Flint is t o be fel ici tated. If hanged he would be anab le to kill any more girls, but in prison h e may live in hopes.

Is said t h a t the great Krcpp g u n will carry a shot sixteeL mil^v. The best English steel rifles w r y th i r teen miles, and we have several 12-inch ter rors in t b e United S ta tes t h a t will carry ten miles. And yet i t is a fact t h a t several valuable l ives have been lost within t b e pas t two months because the best guns used a t life-saving stat ions a re not ab le to carry a life-line more t h a n (500 o r 700 yards. Perhaps if as much a t t en t ion were paid to perfect ing life-saving mortars and guns as to per fec t ing death-dealing ones, the w o r l d s civilization would not suffer.

••ETEH NEAUY. of N e w a r k , N . J . . hod a billy goat and a ten-dollar g r eenback Billy and the bill had a meet ing , and. following the fashion •of t h e period, effected a c.msolida-•tion; t h a t is to say. the goat chewed ;and swallowed the banknote. This ' a r r angement was made without Mr. 'Neary 's consent, and ho moved in-s t an t ly fbr a dissolution of par tner-•ship by kil l ing the goat and recover-ing the f r agmen t s of the bill. i h e s e

jwere sent t o t b e t reasury, and i t seems t h a t t h e r e was enough l e f t to i den t i fy t h e note, and so a few days a g o Mr. Neary rooeived a brand new $10 no te in r e tu rn , and is only out to ithe extent of a g o a t

FLATTENED OUT ON-THE B E A C H .

A N E A R V I E W OF T H E W H A L E .

could suck in a rowboat as easily as j sun. three Spanish you o r I suck in a min t julep t h rongha straw. He tipped t h e scales, according to Capt Je r ry Ludlow, a t sixty tons or thereabouts. And Capt Jer ry Ludlow, when he converses about whales, speaks as ono having authority, says the New York World.

This fellow was a sulphnrback. Per- [ haps t h a t means noth ing to yon. B u t you know t h e high priced rar i ty con-veyed in the mention of the word oaa-vasback. Well a sulphnrback bears the same relation to the ordinary whale t h a t a canvasback docs to the ordinary duck. They a re chockful of

oil. The monster mammal you see in the

pictures here when lying down dead was three feet higher than any man abont him, and a good b ig par t of him was bnried in the sands like a pyramid when he posed for Prof. BartholdL He was snch a s t rapping grea t creature in fac t t h a t a week ago, when he was first washed u p by the sea, he could be seen from the neighborhood of Ssgg Pond, a mile away.

IN DARKEST^AFRICA. Tbm Civi l iz ing Inf lneneM o f t b e Iron

Hnrae. Major Thys. who is in charge of

building t h e Congo railroad, sent a le t ter home to Brussels, a short time ago, t h a t excited much surprise. He said t h a t the Congo natives themselves had a t last begun to show much inter-est in the iron highway t h a t is build-ing through their villages, and many of them are now employed in the work.

During the two years since the build-ing of the road began the enterprise

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twenty. t iger 's la ir was in a la rgo th i cke t which backed aga ins t t h e coast range of mountains, in tho midst of th i s th icke t was a n old ruin, and t h e beas t probably had his bed there.

There were ten of us in the party, including natives, and wo had begun to boat u p tho thicket when 1 stepped into a hole and wrenchod my ank l e T h a t set t led mo for tho day a t l e a s t and I was assisted back to camp, which was about half a mile from the t h i c k e t A sor t of easy cha i r was made for mo a t tho foot of a t ree , and one of the natives was lef t to a t tend to my wants. I heard t h e hun te r s bea t ing u p the game, bu t tho pain took away my interest in the h u n t I had my boot off, and the man was softly rubb ing my ankle with brandy, when all of a sudden ho fastened his eyes on something behind me and his face became terror-str icken.

" W h a t is i t—a tnake?" I whispered. "No—the t i g e r ; ' ho grasped In

reply. " I s h e ciose a t hand?" ••Not fifty feet away, sahib, and

looking r i g h t a t us'." MV gun was ten fee t away and wo

were perfectly helpless. Overhead was safety, bu t before 1 could reach my feet and pull myself u p by a branch the t iger would have me.

••Can you catch t h e branch over your head ?" I asked tho native.

"Yes, sahib, but I cannot leave

you." "Save yourself if you can, or we

shall both be knocked over. If you spr ing in to the t ree the t ige r may b e fr ightened off by your act ion."

The man s t ra ightened up and made a spring, and t h e nex t ins tan t was sa e in tho branches. He was hardly quie t before I hea rd the t r ead of t h e t ige r in the d ry grass a few yards away, and t h e nat ive whis-pered:

I "Say your prayers , sahib; he is

he re . " | In a few seconds t h e t ige r came

u p I was lying a t full length, my head considerably h ighe r than my i

htaves for Seville. Spain. The men fee t and so 1 saw h i s every move, j

were picked up in la t i tnde 30.38, longi- H e 1J

o o k f d m e f a l l1

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t b e f f t C e " d , , t -tude 76.05, the small boat in which they t < 3 r e d » l o w bu t I t was not

were dr i f t ing helplessly having been O D e 0 * * D * 0 r * l h ? ^ sighted by the merest accident The o t c u r : 0 f l l t > ' " d w ° n d € r - " d

schooner Henry Lippitt was bound for i J** sprang up in my h e a r t this port from Turk s Island, and the 1 H e sniffed a t my r i g h t hand which tiny boat was a t first supposed to be a lay beside me. passed his no-e down bit of wreckage. The lookout, how- | to my injured foot, and the fumes of ever, thought he saw signs of life, a n d the brandy seemed t o de l igh t him. the vessel was put about and soon He lay flat down and began to lick came alongside of the open b o a t JThen m y f o o t a n d His tongue was

for the sake of a poor man who's m hard luck, won' t you please, mum, allow me tho use of a piece of soap and a towel for a few minutes?'1

I t was about an hour lato.* t h a t Rhodosido finished a s u m p t iousmaal and set for th with a fifty-cent pioco in h i s hand.—Chicago Kecord.

sailors were re-cently rescued from a small b o a t in mid-ocean and landed a t Philadelphia | from t h e schooner Henry L ipp i t t Their story rivals in horror the most thrill ing recital of the dime novel writer, a n d t h a t they were saved a t al l is considered by them as little short of a miracle.

The men are Pedro Nagoles, Antonio Crimer, and Llogio Peres, and they formed p a r t of the crew of t h e Spanish bark J u a n J. Murga, which, on S e p t 1, sailed from Mobile with a cargo of

O n e 1 h i n i In H e r F a v o r .

"So she intends to go on tho s tage?" " Y e s . " "Do you think sho will make a

success as an ac t r e s s?" ••it is hard to tell; bu t she has ono

t h i n g in he r favor ." ••What is tha t?" ••She has never taken lessons ia

e locut ion."

T H O U G H T S .

Vain people are p ople of l i t t le knowledge.

The prayer of fai th always hold* ou t both hands to receive the answer.

(Jr iwth ia graca is not made by watching to SOJ how other people walk.

There is plenty oi employment {dr those who want to ma'<<e other* happy.

Every thought which genius and piety throw iuto the world al ters tho world.

No man can do good as he has op-portunity without enjoying the occu-pation

Call the dav lo>t on which you hive not been anxious to make somebody happy.

Men are never so likely to sett le a question rightly as when they discn«« i t freely.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certnin characteristics of a vigor-ous in te l lec t

We can all leave something behind u s t h a t will increase the powers of those who follow ns.

One reason why some people arenoit as wick?d as other people, is because they do no t have the same chance.

Confide your vessel to tho mercy of t h e winds and waves, bu t n o t your hear t to t h a t of a wonan , for the ocean is less perfidious than the prom-ise of a woman.

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it was seen to contain three occupants. All were lying face downward in the bottom. They were entirely naked, and great sun blisters covered their backs.

Tenderly they were l if ted t o t h e schooner's deck, bu t though they could speak no English their cries fo r food and wa t e r were pi t i ful in the extreme. They were delirious, and when they realized t h a t they were safe began t o dance a n d sing and h u g and kiss the brawny sailors who had rescued them. They were nursed like babies unti l out of danger, and i t was several days be-fore they recovered from the awfu l ex-perienoe they had endured.

Final ly they were able t o tell t h a t they had sailed from Mobile under Capt Linares, in t ime t o catch t h e early October hurricane. Their vessel was soon thrown on her beam ends and became a hopeless wreck. All hands took to the boats, having time only to save a scant supply of food and water. The sea was running high; t h e small boats were leaky, and the men realized that they could hardly l ive ' through the storm. All rt?inoved the i r clothing in order to be able to swim for the wreckage of the bark should the boat caprize. The three men res-cued were once compelled to swim while they righted the boat, and they managed to Uve ti l l the Lippit t hove in s igh t

The Juan J . Murga had a crew of nineteen men. Four were picked u p by the steamer Lampasas and landed a t Galveston. They were also naked and famishing. Nothing has l»efcu heard of the other twelve, and they

i are probably lost. The three landed

fOXOO THACE LA VERS. has not been able unti l now to com-mand the services of the Congo natives p r 0 I I B 0 1 . They were glad to engage - in the car- here will becarei*. for by the Spanish rier service, bu t drew the line a t dig- consul aud sev't home as soon as gin£ on the railroad. The company possible. Yesterday they joined in a was compelled to import all its r»il- card of thaifiCB to Capt. Benjamin road labor f rom Zanzibar and ports Howes of the schooner t h a t rescued along the •'ulf of Guinea, and this xvsh them. Bow captain and crew are both inoonveni-nt and expeuKlve. warmly piaised for their kind and Early this year quite a larire party of humane t rea tment of the men who Chinese laborers were taken to the passed tlirough such an awful ex-Congo and put to work on tbe railroad, perienos.

hot as fire and as rough as a cow's, and I winced;now and then, in spi te of my efforts not to. I t was some-t h i n g new for t h e man-eater , and he was delighted. He licked away un-t i l I t h o u g h t he had taken ' al l the skin off, and then h e rolled over and over on t h e b l anke t a s you have seen a ca t do af te r feeding.

The hunters and beatera had boen quiet al l th i s t ime, having come to-ge the r for counsel, b u t now they be-gan to shout and tom-tom, and the noise came down to us very distinct-ly. T h e t iger s a t u p and sniffed the a i r and growled. A gun was fired and he growled again , looked up a t the nat ive in the tree, around the camp and down a t me. a n d then de- j l iberately walked off in to the woods. | Next day be was routed out of his ' lair by tbe beaters, and, without be-ing w'oundod or unduly angered, be charged among them with g r s a t fe-rocity and killed two and wounded a

third. A native related h is queer ex-

perience with a lion. He was re-tu rn ing to his village one af ternoon when a snake bit hiih. He was obliged to stop and find cer ta in roots and make a poultice, ahd thus go t belated. As he hurried along in t h e | twil ;ght a lion suddenly leaped into ' the path before him and barred h is f u r t h e r progress. turned to flee he s t ruck down. He stood there , gasp-ing with f r igh t and ready to collapse, when i t suddenly flashed upon him t h a t the lion appeared in playful mood. The boast lay down and rolled over, pawed a t the ea r th , and when the nat ive advanced a s t ep i t became certain t h a t the lion was w for a lark.

Many a girl who marries for leisure repents in haste.

A good way to keep all the boys on the farms wonld be to keep all tho girls t he re

Experience has proved t h a t the longeran engagement the m j r e liable i t is to be broken off.

"Has men a perfect organ of speech?" " Y e s " "Has woman also?" "No; hers is made without stops."

The electric lamo industry of New York gives employment to between 2,00) and 3.00(J girls. I t is piece work, and pays about i'J a week.

Hunk—What prompted yon to ask Miss Giddey to be your wife? Green —I think Miss Giddey herself prompted me more than anybody else-

Relative—Has your son developed ta len t in anv special direction? Fond Mother—No, he doesn't seem to have any talents. He must be a genius.

He—She's the most uninteresting girl I ever m e t though she is r ch. She can ' t say anyth ing bu t Yes and No. She—Which did she say to you?

Tbe ladies have taken to wearing comb* in the i r hair, and with a knowl-edge of this fact we venture to sug-gest t h a t the sweetest th ing in combs is honey.

Mrs. Brooks—I of ten wonder why some folks go to church. Mr*. Stream —So do L Now. there 's Mrs. S h o r t

1 Why. she hasn ' t had a new bonnet in | twelve months.

Mater fami l ias-Another cup broken! j Really, children. 1 sha ' l have to ge t i you some enamel mugs. Big Brother, j with a grin—Why not. mother? All

Had tbe man i the girls have 'em. would have been | There is only one Esther in history

—the beautiful Jewess for whose sake Ahasuerns gave Hainan to the gal-lows and saved the Jews from mas-sacre. To this d a y the orthodox J e w s celebrate tbe event in the feast of Parim. Even in fiction the name is unusual. The best known Esther of story is the gent le heroine of Dicken*' Bleak House.

Mmtild he kc^ 1 nt MBHo« and s tock ya rd* . —>»l*alion Oil In t he bes t f r i end n o t only of tr.»n. imt of dinntt beas t s ** well. F o r swelled Joints s imlnoi l tendons , old BoroT •uldio RS'.IS a n d wuund-< of a l l k i n d s t h e r e i« no r emedy l ike ha lva t lon Oil. I ' r l c e i i c»ni« per Dotlle

^Vhai Ih wal 'InR b u t tho wise m a n ' s h o u r o? pn-puratlonl '

The te-sUmonlaU which t h o mal l b r ln i ; i In ovcry ilay r u n t h u s : " U r uu l l a Cuuci i J-yrupcured t h e i>a y of c r o u p ' " I t c u r e d rat of a mo-a d M r o s s I n z c o u u h ; " o r " i t cured my l i t t l e b a r of .-ore t h r o a t . " "Wo could n o i d . . wi thout I t ."

INLAND.

My home Is f a r a b o r e thn ocean sand*. Too f a r to watch the surges roll And break:

But every day a r r -ss those meadow-lands Fly sea-Kulls toward tho lake.

Ko sound of dashlntr wares the silence brlmrs: No foam, like drlfllnit snow.delUnts the eye;

Instead, a sudden cloud of nisblnK wings Gleams white aealn.st the sky.

The s l - h t of graceful schooners s i l l ing fas t , Stralzht to their h i rMr . Is denied me:

^ u t l e an see tho falrRulls sovrimc past. They a r e my whips and sea

- H a r p e r ' s Bax-ir.

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"German Syrup"

Regis Leblanc is a French Cana* diaa store keeper at Notre Dame de Stanbridge. Quebec, Can., who was cured of a severe attack of Congest-ion of the Lungs by Boschee's Ger -man Sytup. He has solft^fftny a botMe of German Syrup on his per-sonal recommendation. If you drop him a line he'll give you the full facts of tbe case direct, as be did us, and that Boschee's German Syrup brought him through nicely. I t always will. I t is a good medicine and thoroneb in its work. O

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I SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME.

Dropsical Swelling. Cold as Ice. L I F E W A S A B U R D E N .

S C A R L E T F O R T U N E . UV II. IIRRMAN.

"Swamp-noot" saved my life after 1 had Kiffered everyibinjf bu t death . I send you my pho-tograph and thisdt*-fTiption of my caxe and you can use it if

Sou wish. ly hands were as

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CONS-UMPTtON.

CHAPTEll I—Coxmt KO. Tho baa -skin was raised once

aijain. and a younger man entered. Ho was nearly as tall a^ (Jeor^o Mac-lane, and although his cast of fea-tures betrayed a family likeness to tho elder man. there was less of the cruelty about his lips, and less of tho obstinate squareness about his jaws Ho was dark of skin, which matched curiously with tho reddish brown of his hair and beard. Dave Mac-lane was George's nephew and Lucy's cousin, the son of a f ront iersman who had paid tho penalty of his pioneerdom and fallen under a poisoned Pueblo arrow. People about tho mountain stations said tha t Dave was Lucy's intended h u . -band, and tho young man when ques-tioned about tho subject, never denied tho soft impeachment.

Tho two men fell upon the food t h a t stood ready for them with ap-pet i tes sharpened by a long journey. '1 hoy h a i como all tho way from Hatcher ' s Hole, the neares t t r ad ing station, a distance of full th i r ty miles, bav in? gone there to obiain a

! fresh supply of powder, and o ther necessities. The gir l stood by while they cut great slices from the joint, and spread them upon their corn-cakes. dipping the two together in to tho salt, and biting o.T tho pieces without fu r the r ado.

The hearty meal was washed down with draughts of the fiery Taos whisky, tempered in minute propor-tion. with mountain water. T h a t over, the two men went outside and sat themselves down on the log-stumps, which stood ready there, to smoke the i r big sassafras-root pipes. The conversation was made up of the banalit ies of the time and place, and Lucy, who had resumed her kni t t ing, joined in i t but little..

On a sudden, George jumped up and walked along the pa th t h a t led up hill, with his eyes fixed intent ly on the moonlit ground in f ront of him.

••Thar's bin somebody heya r . " h e said, with quie t intensity. "Who ' s

. bin by heyar?1 ' he asked, tu rn ing t o 1 Lucy. ••Who's gone to Dick Ash-land 's?"

••A s t ranger , " the gir l replied, casually.

••I guess I know who i t is ." George continued. gueos h e was bound for Dick's, when he was t h a t soft and soapy a t Hatcher 's . I m igh t ' a known be was going to Dick Ash-

j land ' s . " ••Waal, an ' what o' tha t? ' ' Lucy

asked.

| "Yew mind yewr pot, my g i r l , " ; t he elder Maclane retorted, "an ' j ist look tha t yewr fa t don' t burn. Tha t ' s wha t yew've got to do. I reckon. I t wur a tall a t ranger—dark, youngish, wa r i t not?"

"Tha t ' s h im," Lucy answered. ••I told yew, Dave," the elder man

continued, turning to his nephew. :

••I wur sure of it. 1 wur tha t sure of it. t h a t I'd bet a huudred-dollar bill on i t I tell yew. Dick Ashland's i jumped gold. He's got a-head o' me, ' an ' tha t thar s t ranger ' s come to help i him gi t it. Damnation! b e shan' t g i t a-head o' m e This is my country. He'd a never come heyar, if i t hadn ' t | a-bin to follow my clue."

His hand wandered instinctively to the big knife in his belt, and half unsheathed i t

••Dave." ho said, with a savage quiet , -come along o' me. I reckon I 've got somethinir to say to yew."

Tbe two men strolled away in to .*he n i g h t The girl , still s i t t ing on t h e log. dropped her kn i t t ing on he r lap. and listened, wilh a confused

I th robbing a t hear t , t o the sound of j tho steps as they died away among t h e cedars beyond.

C H A P T E R I I .

If there was ever a man. who rep-resented in a worthy and s t a lwa r t

1 fashion the bone, tbe sinew, the i pluck, the jM-.rseverance. and tho in-[ domitable courage of the h rdy ; Knglish yeoman, driven from a Staf-

fordshire home by hard times, and a harder landlord, t h a t man was Dick Ashland. His fa ther and his grand-father , before him. had farmed some meagre lands a t Chauncey Green, in

j South StalTordshire. and *hen the I old man died, an elder brother j claimed jKissesslon of tbe farm. 1 There was an aged mother to tmp-| port , and Dick Ashland shared t h a t | duty with his brother, though he ; did not share the lat ter 's inheri tance.

Dick tried a l i t t le farming of bis | own. and was uniformly unlucky, j l lent accrued, and for i ts payment, i goods, chattels , implements, and [ stock were seized and sold, until i Dick Ashland, sick a t heart , and de-! spair ing of success a t home, went t o | aeek lortunc in a freer and less iron-

hear ted country. Fortune did not smile very broadly on Ashland, even when ho reached the vast prairies. Ho worked hai*d, b u t year alto.- yea r passed on, and ho was not much the r icher. Ho was hard-wittcd and shrewd withal, and in days gone by, he dabbled a l i t t le in coal and iron-stone mining. When, therefore, ho buil t a h u t far up tho mountain, and lived there year in and year out in stubborn loneliness, (ieorgo Maclane. like others baside him, came to the conclusion that Dick Ashland was like themselves, hun t ing for tha t fabulous gold, with which, according to rumor, tho region teemed, but which no one yet hud been able to find.

Herber t was a younger — the youngest son, in fact, of the carl of Cleve. and his lordship bad been blessed, by his lady, with nine children, which included six then grown u p and marriageable, but un-married daughters. His lordship was not a hard-hearted fa ther , but six marr iageable and unmarried daughters , each of thom engaged in f rant ic ellorts to enter the state of holy mat r mony. and each of them falling repeatedly and decisively, are apt to sour the best of tempers among elderly gentlemen, and the resul t was tha t Lord Cleve looked with a less lenient eye, than ho migh t o therwbe have done, upon tbe escapades of his younger son. Herber t had the mis-fortune of resembling, in a marked degree, his mother, who had been supremely beautiful, whilst his two elder brothers , and all the young ladies, were juvenile reproductions of the face and features of my lord, who was ferociously ugly. A day of reckoning: came, and Herber t Chauncey, badgered by creditors, whom he could not pay. denied as-sistance by his fa ther and by his brothers , followed in the wake of Dick Ashland, to lead a wild and hardy life on the Western plains, where h i s genial bonhomie, h is manly and aist inguished bear.ng, won him many friends.

While engaged in hunt ing the buffalo on the Platte r iver , where a t t h a t t ime they wore sti l l to be found in huge herds, a let ter of Dick Ash-land's reached him. begging him to come to the mountain h u t

" I have something to tell yon. Mister H e r b e r t " Dick wrote, " t h a t will be wor th while going to hear, I want your arm and head both ."

H e r b e r t in the vigor of h is youth-ful impulse, had saddled h is horse and fitted i t for tbe journey ere t h a t le t te r bad been two hours in bis pocke t The journey of two-hundred miles, between the Pla t te and the Sangre de Chr is to range, lay across barren plains, where, in many parts , both horse and rider wanted for ordinary necessities. But Herber t Chauncey was not easily daunted, and when he dashed across Blacknose Corner t h a t afternoon, his spir i ts were buoyant as though he had jus t completed a ten-mile journey.

The two men were speaking in undertones, taking shor t puffs of the i r pipes in the meanwhile.

"There ' s enough of i t Mr. Her-b e r t " Dick Ashland said, accentua-t ing each word by a t ap on his companion's knee, " t o pave t h e s t ree t a t the Green. Thoer 's tons on it likely, and no grea t job to ge t a t it nei ther . Tbe only wonder is tha t i t hasn ' t been spotted a fore th i s . "

"But with all this untold wealth around us." Herbert in t e r rup ted , ••why haven ' t you let me know before ?''

" I wanted to make silre of i t ,-1 wanted to know exactly what I was a b o u t "

••Well, t h e best thing wc can do now, I suppose," said Chauncey, " i s

j t o send to Hatcher 's and get some ' bands to help UR "'

The yeoman gave a low whistle. "So , thank you," he exclaimed.

"Not if I know i t I don ' t want my throa t c u t not just y e t My find wouldn't he no good to me if I , were rot t ing a t tbe bottom of one of the canyons."

" W h a t do you mean?" the young man asked eagerly.

Ashland looked warily about the place as if. even in the lonely wilder- I ness, he was afraid of being over-beard by a prying ear

••What do 1 mean?" he asked, with intense earnestness. " I mean tha t if as much as a whisper got abroad t h a t I'd made th is find—that if a human finger could point out t b e spot where i t lies, our lives wouldn ' t IK; worth fouR-and-Twenty-b inrs pur-chase. We'd have all the scoundrels of t b e plains down upon us, and they 'd th ink no more of blowing out our bra ins f rom behind. kil l ing one

"What do you propose to do?" Chauncey asked.

••Our only chance is to ge t govern-ment protection, and they wouldn' t give us t h a t without an order from For t Bent I'm not much afraid of anybody else finding tho place. I t ' s taken me just seventeen months, and then I only stumbled across i t by a fluke. All tho samo 1 don ' t intend to leave i t without one on us keeping an eye on i t W hat we'll have to do is to pick ou t enough to show t h a t tho stuff is theer all r ight , and then you or I will have to r ide to For t Bent and ge t Captain McAfforty to send a s {uad of soldiers h e r e All these cut throats will fight shy oi Uncle Sam's uniform, though wo shall havo no littlo trouble even then ."

"Whore 's the difficulty in all th is?" Herber t asked.

"No difficulty," Ashland replied, "if we only keep our h a Is clear, an l o u r nerves stiff. But theer are over half-a-doznn s ta t ions between here and Fort Bent and if, a t any of these, so much as a b rea th got abroad of what we a re a b o u t nei ther I nor

! you would live to seo tho end of i t " He again turned and looked a-ound

cautiously.

" I thought I heara Fomothing move among them cedars ." ho said. "Don' t take any notice of i t You may have been followed. I'll go by and-bv and look from another place. Did you tell anybody a t Hatcher 's you were coming here?"

"N'o,"' t he young man reolied, " I had no need of tha t ; your descrip-t ion of the road was plain enough: but I remember now. I did ask a girl, about two miles down, how far i t was to your place."

"Tha t was foolish," said Ashland. ••That girl was Lucy Maclane. Freckled George's daughter , and he's the man of all o thers that I'm most af ra d of. He's always dodgin? and dodging me a b o u t but I've put him off the scent so far. He's been on the same game as myself these months past, and he's as great a rascal as is to be found on the plains. Tha t killing of Dick Maguire was never properly explained. Georpo insists tha t it was done in fa i r Cgh t but I for one don't believe i t I'm sure theer 's someone dodging about among them cedars ," Ashland con-tinued.

"Perhaps i t 's some b e a s t " Herber t suggested.

"Not a bi t of i t " Dick replied. • Theer 's no game theer th i s t ime o1

the day. You s i t here and I'll ge t round to the back of the cabin and from theer I 'll quiet ly c l imb on to the rock, and if theer ' s anyth ing alive among them cedars I ' l l spot i t Keep your weather eye skinned while I'm away . "

\ \ i th t h a t he rose and sauntered carelessly to t h e door of t h e small, rude log hut which formed his habi-tation. He s to l i f ly walked to t h e fu r the r end of it, and the re disap-peared.

The hut had been bui l t on a ledge of t h e rock, some 200 y a r d s squi re , which jutted out. a smil ing headland, over the gap ing jaws of a wild can-yon. The mountain rose sheer and s teep from t h e chasm as if heaven's l igh tn ing had split the solid rock asunder, and had thus le f t an al l t ime token of its fury. The flesh-colored crys ta l l ine feldspar gleamed along the face of the canyon side, b u t s tunted cedars and pines, and ins inuat ing shrubs s t rueeled for life a lon? a hundred li t t le ledges, wherever the fierce wind had depos-ited a handful of loose ear th , and covered with their browns and greens the meta lie purplish blue-grey that prevailed more than other t ints.

"Begad," ho said to himself. ! ••this beats your pantomimes and sen- i sat ional dramas hollow. And to | th ink t h a t there 's yold—bushels of j it, tons of it — lying somewhere 1 a b o u t And I'm to have my share o f ; i t Who says there 's no such thing as luck in this world. Gold!" he re-peated to himself. ••Gold! gold! tons of gold!"

He shook himself together on a j sudden, and commenced to pace up

and down.

"That was a pretty g i r l , " he 1 murmured lo himself: --a downright i jolly girl. And looked to rae, too. as 1 though she were a good girL The j sort of a girl that would stick to a

roan th rough th ick and th in and he lp 1 him fight it out though the devil and

his chances were against him. Disk • doesn't like her father, but he didn' t

say a word against the girL He'd j have mention-id it if there had been ' any th ing aga ins t her. Xo. no. She'

a l i t t le brick. I'm

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Boo lea are Immortal sons deifying sires.

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Let us be silent that wo whispers of the gods.

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An Kxtended r o p a ' a r l t y . BKOWV'S BRONCHIAL TSOCHCS nave for many yean been the most popu.ar article io uso for w-lloving Coughs and Throat troubles.

The highest frlond-hlp must always us to the highest pleasure.

Coaghlnc I-eada to Conaamptloa. Kemp's Balsfim wil l s t o p t h e c o u g h a t

once . Y o u will see t h e e x e e l l e n t e f f e c t a f t e r t h e f i r s t dose. Ask y o u r f r i e n d s a b o u t i t N a and | i 00 a t a l l d rugg i s t s .

Republics come to an end by luxartotn nablta; monarchies by poverty.

ID Olden lime* People overlooked the Importance of aar-

beneflei il effecU and were aaSlB-ned with transient action: but now that It is generally known that .-yrup of Ktgs wlB 2SInnu.,»B CUPB habitual con tlpattea. well-informed people will not buy ol^ar laxatltes, which act for a time, but daallr Injure the system.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; ex-treme culture to simplicity.

Tbe name of N. H. Downs' atlll Urea, al-though bo has been dead many years. Hla Elixir for tbe cure ot coughs and colda haa already outlived him aquarterof acentary. and Is still growing In favor with the pabUe.

Alltbosa who have used Baxter,* Man-drake Bitters speak very strongly la their praise. Twenty-live cents per bottle.

Remembrance is the only paradise oat of which we cannot be driven.

rha Ponle So'.red. Perhaps no local disease has puuled ana

ba i.ed tbe medical profession more thaa nasal catarrh, u bile not immediately fatal it la among tbe most nauseous and disgust-ing ills the i esh is heir to. and the records show very fe * or no cases of radical care af chronic catarrh by an ^ of tbe many modes of treatment until tne introduction of My a Cream Balm a few years ago. The succeas of this preparation has been most gratify-ing ana surprising.

No sin is small. No grain of sand ia amall in the mechanism of a watch.

tho booty, than ners ."

, sure. And if I'd and then ! dress her in a nice trown and polish

another to tret hold of ; h e r a bit. she'd drive the girls a l of eat ing their din-

t b e Towers mad with envy. A lon^ i way between here und Staffordshire.

Herbert s t retched his legs widely. : bu t if there isn ' t a slip betwixt the ••That's warm,"' be said quietly. ' cup and tbe lip I'll take her there, ••You'd find i t warmer than you ' or my name isn't Herbert Cnauncey." red for. Mr. Herber t . " Diolr nnn. i A broad hand tapped him on" tbe eared for. Mr. Herber t . " Dick con-

t inued: - a n d if we want t o save our skins and my gold as well, we've j u s t got to put our heads together , t h a t we have- I t ' s easy thaJ does i t th i s t ime, and we've got to work slow and sure. Theer 's enough theer to sot up a dozen on us for life, and we ; down and have a look at my find " m u s t n ' t lose our heads in ge t t ing i t " I [TO BE COSTWLEU.]

shoulder. It was Dick. " i was mistook." said the yeoman.

* theer 's nobody theer. I t must have been some beast af ter all. But 1 th ink we'd better wait unlil i t ' s qu i te night for ull that , before we climb

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Carefully examine every detail of year business.

A m a n may no t h a v e a s t i t ch to h i s b a c k b u t s t i l l have one in his side.

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1894.

Good bye, 1893. Martin Mason of Grattan was m

:!ie City Monday. M. H. Amphlett was over from

Ionia Saturday. E. E. Taylor of Grand Rapids was

i i Lowell Tuesday. How many times this week have

j 'm written it "1893.?" The many teams that line our streets

••e no indications of hard times. Wm. A. Smith and M. Gamily

v re over from Ionia Monday. Some second hand sewing machines

ii-. jrood order cheap at R. D Stocking's. Pastor Shanks is assisting Rev.

Cose of Ada in special meetings this v.eek.

Worden's orchestra furnished music ior a New Year's party at Coop--Tsville.

Miss Chattie Sparks of Belding was visiting friends in Lowell for a few •iays last week.-

If you want an outside newspaper »r magazine you can save money by • lubbing with the L E D G E R .

Harry W. Buloher, A. H . Thomp-son, W. L. Peck and H. B. Pick, of Ionia, were in Lowell last week Fri-iay.

The reason women don't appreciate (ne telegram at half ite value, is that ;)Ostscrfpt8 cannot be added without '•xtra charge.

A set of Ridpath's Universal His-'ory has been added to the circulating library. I t will be very valuable as a work of reference.

Miss Ethel Cauble, who has been visiting Pastor and Mrs. Shanks during the Holidays returned to Oberlin Tuesday mora ing.

There is a woman down in Texas who is such an artistic enthusiMt that >he tries provok family iare io order that she may decorate tbeac.

The Belding Star comes to us e»-iarged and improved and threatening other innovations, right in the face of these bard time9f too. Twinkle away, Mr. Star.

Samples of Tbe Poultry and Hofte Review to be given to the next forty persons paying a year's subscription to the L E D G E R may be seen at this office.

The Lowell District Fair asso-ciation will hold its aMiual meet at tbe office of the secretary over Look's drug store on Monday Jan-uary 8. All members are requested :o be present, especially farmers.

J . S . H O O K E R

Bill Nye says: "Go where you will m this country to-day and you find men talking about tariff and tax on raw material who haven't had a mouth-ful of raw material or any other kind in their house for weeks except as their wives earned it aud brought it home to them. The country is full of lueu who have thought so hard for ilie eommon weal that the seats of i heir trocmers shine like the dome of :he Massadmsctts state house."

—[New York Sun.

Tlie farmers of Michigan are warn-- d to beware of strangers who go j J- T. Husted. The couple wanted to -bout the country painting patent 1 be married by a minister and Mr. medicine signs on barns and other I Husted happened to lie around just in -inildings. They ask the farmer to , tirae to scoop in a nice fat wedding fee .Vtgn a certificate .that the work has i of 25 cento —[Grand Rapids Herald,

December 21. Free trade fee, eh. Elder.?

Many thanks to the bewildering number of friends who, in such a sur-prising manner invaded the jiarsonage on Monday evening, for the beautiful set of dish?s and other presents which they brought. Words can but faintly express our appreciation of these man-ifestations of kindly regard and good feeling. A. P. Moors and family.

The watch meeting at the M. E. church New Years eve was of marked interest. Tbe attendance was good, and a spirit of unusual devotion per-vaded the hearts of nearly all present until the close.

If yon want photographs for the bolidaya at the new gallery come at once.

Dewitt C. Hunter was in from Keene Saturday.

Clayton Baker of Smyrna walked

our streets Monday.

Get your holiday pictures at Wil-son's over the postoffice.

Gilbert J . Curtiss of Saranac was a Lowell visitor Monday.

John Tournell of Grand Rapids was in town last Saturday.

J . E. Ackerson and family spent Christmas with Lowell friends.

William Hartwell of Rockford was in tho village last week Friday.

Monroe Ladner of Cannon was doing business here last week Friday.

Charles Keech, of Alton was tran-sacting business in Lowell Saturday.

Mrs. George B. Avery and sou Artie spent lust Saturday in Grand Rapids.

0 . A. Robinson and wife have re-turned from their holiday visit to Muskegon.

Orton Hill has been spending his holiday vacation with his family in their new home.

Have your magazines bound Orders left at the L E D G K B office will receive prompt attention.

Pay a year's subscription to the L E D G E R and get the Poultry and Horse Review for a year free.

Mrs. Emma J . Robinson was ranted a divorce last Saturday from eorge Robinson for non support.

Turkeys shun barber shops just at this season of the year because they dont like to hear the continual cry of "nex'."

Soggy pie is mentioned as one of the causes of dyspepsia. One of the causes of soggy pie is young married women.

Strange as it may seem many a girl falls out when when she falls in. She falls in love and falls out with her parents.

Harry Alverson, tinner at W. R. Blaisdell & Co.'s hardware store, is spending a few weeks visiting his pa-rents in Missouri.

Mis» Gladys VanDeusen visited her cousin. Ruby Story, at Pratt 's Cross-ing on New Years' day, and attended the skating party held on Pratt's lake.

"Feed my lambs" reads a motto that hangs in s Wall street broker's office. It suggests itself that "Shear ray lambs'7 would be more appropriate.

VeritaMc prayer of a little grrl who had been punished and told to pray; " 0 God! please make me good; not real good, but just good enough so I won't have to be whipped."

If you shosld be attacked witb la grippe slick your feet in hot watet— with a little raustard in it—put a piece of flannel dipped in hoi haim-melis (wkch haxel) over your chest with a piece of dry flannel over that, drink warm sage tea and at night, every two hours, take six pellets of aconite—the homeopathic preparation —and during the day a one grain pill of sulphate of quinine. Keep yonrself warm and eat whatever your appetite calls for. This treatment will pos-itively core you.—[Chicago Record.

Robert Sherineton and Miss Mattic Wengcr, both of gaines township, were married yesterday afternoon in the county bridal chamber by Rev.

>een properly done, and in a short rime the certificate turns up at some hank or other as a promissory note. These sharpers have recently been

working" Wisconsin farmers.

The state census will be taken in i 894. Tlie enumerators will be ap-iKiiuted by the town board in town--hips and by the municipal authorities ia lacorporated cites. Town or city .'lerkt will transmit tbe names of ap-jioinlees to the secretary of state before "he 20th of May. The compensation

vf enumerators is 12.50 per day for ren hours work. The results of the vork will be sent to the state de-portment for compilation, which will i . a a work of vast magnitude. The •vork for the lust state census required '.be wrvice of forty clerks two years.

Lots of business day.

Winegar bus inaugurated a clear-ance sale of shoes.

Mr. and Mra. A. B. Waterman nre both quite poorly.

Wilson's gallery is newly furnished. Get your photos there.

Mies Emma Bostoff spent Christ-mas with Ionia friends.

Everything is new in Wilson's gal-lery over the post office.

D. G. Look reports a better holiday trade this year than last.

The new gallery in the Lee Block is now ready for business.

Mrs. J . 0 . Chapin has returned from • seven weeks visit iu Canada.

Mrs. Robertson of Keene is visiting her parents, J . Robertson und wife.

Cheater Whitney of Caledonia made Lowell a visit a few days since.

City Marshal Edmunds hns been suffering from«n attack of the grip

Miss Elsie Richmond spent New Years at 0 - i d with her cousin and other friends.

Next forty subscribers to the LKWJ-

ER get the Poultry and Horse Review-free for one year.

Mrs. Cornelius Krum went to Grand Rapids New Years to visit her sick daughter, Mrs. Jennie Morgan.

Richmond & Perkins have com-menced taking photographs in Lee block, corner of Main and River ste.

Mr. aud Mrs. A. D. VanDeusen en-tertained, with other friends, Fred Beiusteud of Owosso, on Friday even-ing.

Call at the new gallery, and get ac-quaiuted. We have the Wilson neg-etives and will furnish duplicates cheap.

Married, in Lowell, at.the residence of Clayton Gunn, brother of the bride. Miss Mary Gunn aud LeGrand Rath-bone, both of Grand Rapids, by Rev. A. P. Moors.

Have you read Boylan's new ad ? , Farmers who contemplate fixing up • thier fences the spring woald do well to call and see R. B.'s new fence ma-chiue. It's a dandy.

"Here, send me that d-d Democrat paper another six months," was tl • salutation that greeted the L E D G E R

scribe Monday morning, accompanied by the needful half-dollar.

S. P. Hicks local agent for the Home Insurance Company, is dis-tributing some lovely calendars for 1894. The words and music to "The Old Oaken Bucket" are printed on Ihe back of each.

Lemis Covert has returned from Dakota where he has beeft since last March. He was accompanied by Wm. Andrews who has made Dakota his home for nearly six years. They will return to the west in the Spring.

X B. Yeiter, so well known in Lowell and vicinity will engage in the furniture business here. He has rented the store between McCarty's aud Wisner's mill, where his many friends will find him after the eight-eenth of this month.

Tbe Twice-a-Week Detroit Free Press and the Ledger one year only $1.75. Both papers on trial three months for 50 cents. A card to the Free Press wll gel yoo two copies of that paper free. Free samples of tfw L E D G E R can be nad at the office. Don't borrow your neighbors papers. Take some of your own.

Boys see here! Bring us five year-ly subscriptions or subscriptions nmounting to $5, and wo will make you a present of a patent tubular hand sled "Youth's Companion" worth |i2. Call at the office and see sample. Here is the chance of a lifetime to se-cure a handsome coaster for a little effort. Go iu for it with a will.

WHAT MTTOI EPITAPH. "She made home happv!" These few

words I read Wilhin a charchyard, written on a

stone; Xo name, nor date; the shiiplc words

alone Told me the story of the unknown dead.

A marble column HfUd high its head, Clnae by, inscribed to one the world

hat known,. I5ut ah! that lonely grave with moss o'er-

grown. Thrilled me far more than his who

armies led.

"She made home happy!" through the long, cad years

The mother toiled, and never stopped to rest

Until they crowed her hands U]M)n her breast,

And closed hef eyes, no longer dim with tears.

The simple recfird that she left behind TVas grander tlran thet8oldier'8 to my

miod.

T H E G I A N T '

IS SELLING OUT Its Great Stock of

Suits and Overcoats!

For Men 6ft Boys.

HATS,CAPS, AND FURNISHING] - A T -

Most Enormous Reductions Evi Heard of.

We will not give Prices Hej'. Call and See for Yourself.

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Corner Canal and Lyon Streets.

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With the only conpfete bicydc plant in the worfd. where every part of the machine is made from A to Z, is it any wonder thftt Victor Bicycles are acknowledged leaders?

There's *> bicycle like x Victor, and no plant so grandljr complete as the one devoted exclusively to the manufcctuxc^ of this king of wheels. . ..

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